"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 >