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commit f71eb387df05f0a5634718e07f5fa1f9173610b0 Author: gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> Date: Wed Dec 28 20:19:23 2016 +0100 Extend long description. --- debian/control | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index d7b0c3b..6a53b49 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -21,4 +21,11 @@ Depends: ${misc:Depends}, libclass-data-inheritable-perl, libdatetime-format-natural-perl Description: module to extract probable dates from strings - Date::Extract extracts dates from arbitrary strings. + Date::Extract extracts dates from arbitrary strings. It will take an + arbitrary block of text, search it for something that looks like a date + string, and build a DateTime object out of it. + . + By design it will produce few false positives. This means it will not catch + nearly everything that looks like a date string. So if you have the string + "do homework for class 2019" it won't return a DateTime object with the year + set to 2019. -- Alioth's /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice on /srv/git.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libdate-extract-perl.git _______________________________________________ Pkg-perl-cvs-commits mailing list Pkg-perl-cvs-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-perl-cvs-commits