On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Hill, Ronald wrote:

> > On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 08:11 PM, Iain Truskett wrote:
> > > Remember: part of the point of having the various format
> > > modules is that you can pick'n'mix. You could conceivably
> > > wrap a number of them in Builder to make your own parser
> > > that recognizes the sorts of dates you come across. I mostly
>
> I think an example of this type of thing needs to go into the
> FAQ. Do you have an example of doing this?

Actually, it probably belongs directly in the Builder docs.

> Can I encourage you to put together a Format::Simple module
> and release it? I think we need something out there for
> very basic date parsing. There is the DateTime::Format::HTTP
> that comes very close ( It works great on Ingres dates/times).
> Or maybe the regrex that you provided can be incorporated
> into HTTP?

Anything called DT::F::Simple should parse everything Date::Parse can
parse, at least, and not _too_ much more, because it should also be
reasonably fast ;)

I know Graham Barr will be happy to see this, because at OSCON he asked me
when the DateTime project will make his TimeDate stuff obsolete ;)


-dave

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