"DateTime::Format::Duration" may be what you need for
this specific problem. Can you show us a few lines of
your template?

- Flavio S. Glock

> I am running into a snag with using
DateTime::Duration and TT. I think 
> it's an important issue and am surprised that there
is no info on this 
> on Google.
> 
> Somehow when you try to invoke any of
DateTime::Duration's accessor 
> methods from within a TT template it dies with an
error that comparison 
> operators are not overloaded in DateTime::Duration
and that I should use 
> DateTime::Duration->compare() to do comparisons.
> I have tracked this down and it appears that
somewhere deep in the 
> template processing, TT is doing an 'eq' on a
DateTime::Duration object 
> and that's throwing an exception.
> 
> I am wondering whether it would be very hard to
overload the comparison 
> operators.
> If both objects are of DateTime::Duration, then can
you just call 
> compare from within _compare_overload(). And if
they are not of the same 
> type, then they are obviously not equal.
> Or maybe the 'eq' operator could be a special case
of comparison, 
> implemented as a separate _eq_overload() subroutine.
> 
> Maybe, I am asking for too much, but it seems like
what I am trying to 
> do is fairly mundane.
> 
> Thanks for any insights you may have.
> 
> 
> Arshavir
> 


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