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Dave Rolsky wrote:
> use DateTime;
> use DateTime::Parse::MySQL;
> my $dt = DateTime::Parse::MySQL->new_datetime( $mysql_dt );
> print DateTime::Parse::MySQL->mysql_datetime( $dt );
>
> I can also imagine some other scheme, where parse/format modules register
> the formats they can handle with DateTime.pm.
>
> But I'm very strongly opposed to something that just passes random strings
> into new() and then loads the module on demand.
>
I guess that is the part that I don't understand. If you have the ability to
add new parsing methodology to a list, you can just as easily subtract. So, if
you want to use only the basic parsing and throw an error if you get a
non-standard date format:
use DateTime ( parse => basic); # class-wide default
my $date1 = DateTime->new($dtstring); # better be ISO CCYYMMDD
my $sqldate = DateTime->new($sqlstr, parse => MySQL); # object override
etc.
This is a much more friendly interface for the average programmer.
John
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