John Siracusa schreef: > On 7/13/03 6:47 AM, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: > > A parser that can parse this format correctly should not be called > > Simple. As you say, it has to have a US and a Euro mode at least; the > > default DateTime parser should be simple enough to need no > > configuration. > > I don't think it would be complex at all. There's only one setting! :)
There's also the timezone (what does "EST" mean?), locale, and there are other ambiguous date formats. How would you interpret "01/04/02", for example? And should it be able to parse "19 loka 2003"? > See above. It's like 4 or 5 regexes for DateTime::Format::Simple. I know, > because I have a DateTime wrapper that parses these formats, it it covers > about *99.9%* of the date strings I encounter, including user input in web > forms and such. I'm impressed. What are those regexes? Eugene
