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  • Wheel, reinvented (Score:2)

    by Matts (1087) on 2002.12.29 18:07 (#15645) Journal
    Check out Time::Piece, which ships with Time::Seconds. Also check out Date::ICal, which ships with Date::ICal::Duration.

    All achieve the same thing.
    • I seem to recall that both Date::Calc and Date::Manip might also do the same thing. Could be wrong though as it's been a while since I've looked...

    • Oh, I know about Time::Seconds (I'm a big advocate of using Time::Piece). This isn't my attempt to replace it, just something that I was playing around with that I thought I'd share.

      There are differences between the two module tho'. Time::Seconds uses exported symbolic constansts where Time::Period uses objects. Also adding one year or one month to a date using Time::Seconds will add a fixed number of seconds whereas Time::Period will really add one year or one month.

      Didn't know about Date::ICal::Durati

      • Yep, this is a rather fundamental flaw in Time::Seconds (though there will always be issues with adding real durations too - like what to do adding a month at March 31st). I have been thinking seriously about re-writing Time::Piece entirely in terms of Date::ICal to try and fix this flaw.
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