A search of the archives for the work 'business' yields the latest thread as being from Aug 2004. I have a module that wraps Date::Manip for regulare dates from which I derive a business class. Being based on Date::Manip, it's a slow as <fill in your favorite expliative>. Anyway, I have determined that I don't need all of the date parsing routines of Date::Manip, so I plan to rip out the guts of the module and replace it with DateTime.
In order to do that, could just write a small routine to parse the few input date formats I know I need to handle, slap in DateTime and be on my merry way. But I really fell like writting DateTime::Business. So, the following is a proposal: 1) Add a convenience method called 'today' to DateTime, which is the same as Date::Time->now->trunc(to=>day) 2) All business dates will have no time componant. 3) The call to use DateTime::Business would be initialized with a function ref that creates a -- Matthew O. Persico
