parse_datetime and format_datetime

2003-11-05 Thread Matt Sisk
Just out of curiousity...why the '_datetime' suffix on these methods? Isn't that redundant? Or was it assuming that these methods might be showing up in classes outside of the DateTime namespace? And speaking of brevity...the 0.18 docs for DateTime say that 'time_zone_long_name' is short for $d

Re: parse_datetime and format_datetime

2003-11-05 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
> Just out of curiousity...why the '_datetime' suffix on these methods? > Isn't that redundant? Or was it assuming that these methods might be > showing up in classes outside of the DateTime namespace? To differentiate from: _date, _time, _span, etc. > And speaking of brevity...the 0.18 docs for

Re: parse_datetime and format_datetime

2003-11-05 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Matt Sisk wrote: > Just out of curiousity...why the '_datetime' suffix on these methods? > Isn't that redundant? Or was it assuming that these methods might be > showing up in classes outside of the DateTime namespace? Because we can parse and format things that aren'ts dateti