in reply to Re^5: Ovid's "Please Stop Using Perl 3" (Date::Manip)
in thread Ovid's "Please Stop Using Perl 3"

I don't parse dates in unknown formats.

Right, I guess I've probably done an above average number of scripts which do reports and take date arguments. A problem which ParseDate was basically written to solve.

And thinking about it more, I have written a couple of things like my "And-httpd syslog" => "Apache-httpd combined log" converter, which are basically regexps + hash and they would be more painful to do with Date::Manip (and speed does matter). But implementing the "skip enteries before time X" option, without it, would be bad :).

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