jdporter,
I agree with you completely in principle. I don't have time to decipher the Date::Manip code in order to write patches with working tests. This is primarily due to the fact that I am going to be a Dad again real soon now :-)

In addition to not having time to fully document the parsing routine and write patches for more formats, I certainly don't have time to create new features. One of the failures of Date::Manip is to control the behavior when more than one outcome is possible.