Re: [RFC] Date::MySQL

2001-11-25 Thread Rich Bowen
On 25 Nov 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Bowen) writes: > > > rbowen@rhiannon:~% perl -MDate::ISO -le 'my $d=Date::ISO->new( epoch => > > time ); print $d->iso;' > > 2001-W44-6 > > > > Unfortunately, the "default" ISO date format is this year-week-day > > format. At leas

Re: [RFC] Date::MySQL

2001-11-25 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Bowen) writes: > rbowen@rhiannon:~% perl -MDate::ISO -le 'my $d=Date::ISO->new( epoch => > time ); print $d->iso;' > 2001-W44-6 > > Unfortunately, the "default" ISO date format is this year-week-day > format. At least that's what I gathered from all the web sites that I >

Re: [RFC] Date::MySQL

2001-11-07 Thread Rich Bowen
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > In ISO 8601:1986, the basic format for the complete representation of a > date is 19991231 and the extended format for a date is 1999-12-31 (see > section 5.2.1 Calendar Date and in particular 5.2.1.1 Complete > Representation). > > There is discussio

Re: [RFC] Date::MySQL

2001-11-06 Thread Jonathan Leffler
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: >On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Nick Tonkin wrote: >> So does this mean that you would not support extending Date::ISO to >> provide a method to output a date in YYY-MM-DD format by default? It >> sounds like it does. In that case I would have to think that >> creating

Re: [RFC] Date::MySQL

2001-11-04 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Nick Tonkin wrote: > > So does this mean that you would not support extending Date::ISO to > provide a method to output a date in YYY-MM-DD format by default? It > sounds like it does. In that case I would have to think that > creating Date::MySQL would be appropriate. No, it

Re: [RFC] Date::MySQL

2001-11-03 Thread Nick Tonkin
So does this mean that you would not support extending Date::ISO to provide a method to output a date in YYY-MM-DD format by default? It sounds like it does. In that case I would have to think that creating Date::MySQL would be appropriate. ?? Nick ~~~ Nick Tonkin On Fri, 2 Nov 2001,

Re: [RFC] Date::MySQL

2001-11-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:47:05PM -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: > I was sure that there was an iso method, which output the iso formatted > date. > > rbowen@rhiannon:~% perl -MDate::ISO -le 'my $d=Date::ISO->new( epoch => > time ); print $d->iso;' > 2001-W44-6 > > Unfortunately, the "default" ISO da

Re: [RFC] Date::MySQL

2001-11-02 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Ilmari Karonen wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Nick Tonkin wrote: > > > > Nevertheless, in order to smooth the ruffled feathers of (my fellow) Brits > > and other Euros, I shall change my module so that it is required to > > provide a format specification. I only have 'us' and

Re: [RFC] Date::MySQL

2001-11-02 Thread Ilmari Karonen
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Nick Tonkin wrote: > > Nevertheless, in order to smooth the ruffled feathers of (my fellow) Brits > and other Euros, I shall change my module so that it is required to > provide a format specification. I only have 'us' and 'eu' at this > point: I suppose 'iso' would be redund

Re: [RFC] Date::MySQL

2001-11-02 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:39:49PM -0800, Nick Tonkin wrote: > > Out of a dozen or so responses I received here, on [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > > in c.l.p.m., over 90% were huffy snipes about only Americans using > > MM-DD-, penned by outraged folks w