Re: Arbitrary Date Parsing [Was: Re: Date::Parse (Time::Local?) choking on years between 1956-1938 and wrong below, on FC4/5.8.6]

2005-07-21 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:34:22PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Rick Measham wrote: It's been discussed before, and the main reason is below. There's just no way to properly parse a datetime. You can make 'best guesses'. But you should probably use something else to make

Re: Arbitrary Date Parsing [Was: Re: Date::Parse (Time::Local?) choking on years between 1956-1938 and wrong below, on FC4/5.8.6]

2005-07-08 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Rick Measham wrote: It's been discussed before, and the main reason is below. There's just no way to properly parse a datetime. You can make 'best guesses'. But you should probably use something else to make your guesses, then offer them to the user to pick which they

Re: Arbitrary Date Parsing [Was: Re: Date::Parse (Time::Local?) choking on years between 1956-1938 and wrong below, on FC4/5.8.6]

2005-07-07 Thread Rick Measham
Scott R. Godin wrote: I'm sort of surprised that there is no equivalent DateTime-using module that would mirror the capabilities of Date::Parse. Dave, Have you talked with Graham Barr at all about merging the arbitrary-date-parsing capabilities (of Date::Parse) into the DateTime family tree?