Date::Manip is ancient and was highly regarded for being very flexible (especially at parsing date strings of unknown format) but noted for being quite "slow". It certainly isn't a "new date/time module" that people are trying to standardize on.

I still see quite a few different date/time modules being suggested so consolidation is not working very well yet from my perspective. I recall that there is work being done on some Holy Grail suite of Perl date/time modules but don't recall the namespace (it was something really simple like DateTime::*), which might say something about why consolidation isn't finished. I certainly don't have a good idea where I'd go to figure out which date/time module currently has the most support and that is part of why I don't use any date/time modules.

I just use localtime, gmtime, and Time::Local and sometimes POSIX::strftime() and would find learning some module time-consuming and fully expect to find using the module to be quite frustrating. But I'm sure most peoples' mileage will vary.

- tye        

In reply to Re^3: Ovid's "Please Stop Using Perl 3" (Date::Manip) by tye
in thread Ovid's "Please Stop Using Perl 3" by Scott7477

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