Time

[Ashley Yakeley]

Andrew Pimlott <andrew at pimlott.net> wrote:

> The best time library I've used is Perl's DateTime.  (Anyone who thinks
> that everything in Perl is a bad hack, please suspend judgement for a
> minute!)  It has DateTime, DateTime::Duration, and DateTime::TimeZone
> classes (along with a host of supporting players, such as the handy
> DateTime::Span), and addresses the various ambiguities.  (Another
> example not yet discussed here:  The difference between two times can be
> expressed in years, days, hours, or seconds, so the library lets you
> choose.)  I believe it gets all the date math right, including leap
> seconds.  It is the result of considerable development, use, and
> experience with other time libraries.
> 
> The project is at
> 
>     http://datetime.perl.org/
> 
> and if you click the modules link, you can read the documentation.

There certainly seem to be a lot of good ideas here. In addition to 
DateTime and DateTime::Span there are sets DateTime::Set and 
DateTime::SpanSet for representing various kinds of sets of time. 
Various events and calendars make use of these.

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA