Re: Four patches for LWP (and comments)
Gisle Aas (aas@oslonett.no)
Tue, 08 Aug 1995 08:48:43 +0200
> >> * I completely agree that LWP::Date should be a standard Perl
> >> module -- there's no particular reason why it should be under the heading
> >> of LWP. How about Date::RFC1123?
> >
> >Hmmm... How about a Date::Parse, which will parse any date known to
> >computing mankind, and then Date::{RFC1123,...} to output strings?
> >Note that the Date.pm is not perfect or complete. I nearly added a
> >fallback format parser, which guesses dates in any silly format such as
> >"1995 21 Jan 12:00 Wednesday" etc. That'd be neat (if fairly useless in
> >practice)
>
> You mean Date::AI? :) I like your suggestion for parsing in one and
> output in another.
The module list have these entries:
Date::
::GetDate adcf Yacc based free-format date parser in C TOMC
::GetDate adpf Byacc based free-format date parser in Perl GBARR
Has anyone checked them out? Do they do what we want?
I don't want to put another module into the Date:: name space before we know.
--Gisle