Smylers wrote: > Ron Blaschke writes: > >> DateTime::Format::ISO8601 feels rather heavyweight, with dependencies >> on DateTime > > DateTime _is_ quite heavyweight, but it's also generally right, and > there's a whole suite of modules which work with it, meaning that you > can live almost entirely in the DateTime world for all your date- and > time- stuff. > > For any one individual task you can likely come up with a module which > just does that and does it more leanly, but there is an advantage in > having various date- and time-based modules working together, and also > in having them being based on something which gets right all the really > awkward bits (such as leap seconds, time zones, and daylight-saving > time); even if you don't need that, somebody else will. > > It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing, but obviously DateTime is only an > awkward prerequisite of a module if you don't already have it installed. > And the more people who embrace DateTime, the more it will be seen as a > reasonable module for othewr things to be based on.
I spent some time thinking about this, and I guess you are right. It's probably best to contribute to DateTime. Thanks for your advice, Ron
