-truncate verses ::Strptime

2005-08-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I've been away from this list for quite some time but I'm back doing some datetime stuff. Nothing fancy but much easier than home-grown. While testing some code I ran into the situation that I can deal with but would prefer not having to. Short story usng the truncate method on a datetime

Re: -truncate verses ::Strptime

2005-08-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: Roderick A. Anderson schreef: Short story usng the truncate method on a datetime object that was created with a format destroys/removes the format -- forever. That's a bug. DT::truncate() copies the locale and the timezone, but should also

Re: -truncate verses ::Strptime

2005-08-04 Thread Rick Measham
Rick Measham schreef: Not a bug. Strptime is a ::Format module, all it does is takes a string and returns a DateTime. Eugene van der Pijll replied: But Rod wasn't calling the formatter object directly, he was using the new 'formatter' parameter to DT::new(): Ahh sorry, missed that ..

Re: -truncate verses ::Strptime

2005-08-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Rick Measham wrote: Ahh sorry, missed that .. infact, I think I completely missed the addition of the option :) You too? :-) Rod -- Open Source Software - You usually get more than you pay for... Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL