Re: %p in DateTime::Format::Strptime doesn't match PM

[Mike Schilli]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Rick Measham wrote:

 To work out the 'why', check $p-errmsg:
   Your am/pm value (PM) does not match your hour (01)

 So your am/pm value of 'PM' doesn't match the hour 01 as 01 is in the
 morning. To hand it to you on a platter, you're using the %H specifier
 in your pattern which is the 24-hour specifier rather than %I which is
 the 12 hour specifier.

Oh my! Thanks for your help.

But I've got to tell you, had I seen Your am/pm value (PM) does not
match your hour (01), I would have never guessed what it meant.

Maybe %H matched a 24-hour value in the AM range, which conflicts
with the %p value found (PM). Use %I for 12-hour values. would be
easier to understand for the impatient reader :).

Thanks again,

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
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Re: %p in DateTime::Format::Strptime doesn't match PM

[Rick Measham]

Mike Schilli wrote:

Maybe %H matched a 24-hour value in the AM range, which conflicts
with the %p value found (PM). Use %I for 12-hour values. would be
easier to understand for the impatient reader :).


Sure .. I can do that .. though it won't specify %H .. more like: The 
hour value is in 24-hour time, however the value specified (1) does not 
match the am/pm value (pm)

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Re: %p in DateTime::Format::Strptime doesn't match PM

[Mike Schilli]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Rick Measham wrote:
 Mike Schilli wrote:
  Maybe %H matched a 24-hour value in the AM range, which conflicts
  with the %p value found (PM). Use %I for 12-hour values. would be
  easier to understand for the impatient reader :).

 Sure .. I can do that .. though it won't specify %H .. more like: The
 hour value is in 24-hour time, however the value specified (1) does not
 match the am/pm value (pm)

Hmm, it's more expressive than the previous one, but I'd say that using
%I instead of %H is not obvious (even for me, and I've been using your
module for a while now), so I think the error message could benefit
from having a hint to %I included.

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
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%p in DateTime::Format::Strptime doesn't match PM

[Mike Schilli]

Looks like the %p in the Strptime snippet below doesn't match the PM
in the date string. Anyone knows why?

use DateTime::Format::Strptime;

my $p = DateTime::Format::Strptime-new(
pattern = '%d/%b/%Y %H:%M %p',
locale  = 'en_US',
);

my $dt = $p-parse_datetime(21/Jun/2006 01:30 PM);
print $dt\n;

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
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Re: %p in DateTime::Format::Strptime doesn't match PM

[Rick Measham]

Mike Schilli wrote:

Looks like the %p in the Strptime snippet below doesn't match the PM
in the date string. Anyone knows why?


To work out the 'why', check $p-errmsg:
Your am/pm value (PM) does not match your hour (01)

So your am/pm value of 'PM' doesn't match the hour 01 as 01 is in the 
morning. To hand it to you on a platter, you're using the %H specifier 
in your pattern which is the 24-hour specifier rather than %I which is 
the 12 hour specifier.


Cheers!
Rick Measham

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