> Dave Rolsky schreef: > > It's really hard for me to think of a case where you would not know the > > expected precision in advance.
It's usually true that you do know the precision in advance (not always) but not ALL handling of time involves knowing the year. On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: > One file can contain dates of varying precision, and you can't tell the > precision of an individual date in advance. If DT::F::ISO8601 returns > a DateTime object of 1234-01-01T00:00:00 for the ISO8601 strings "1234", > "1234-01" and "1234-01-01", you have a problem. How about a precision mask specifying which fields are valid/accurate? -J --
