RE: ISO8601 date formats
Michael Peppler <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:59, Avis, Ed wrote: > Michael Peppler wrote: > > >I'm thinking of adding support for conversion to ISO8601 date/time > >formats to DBD::Sybase. > > Supporting standard date formats is good but why does it belong in > DBD::Sybase? There are already a dozen modules for date conversions. 1) it's easy 2) The existing Sybase date formats are locale-dependent, which causes potential problems when you need to parse the date 3) The conversion (in C) is ultra-fast, something that is important in a module that might pull a lot of data... Michael -- Michael Peppler Data Migrations, Inc. [email protected] http://www.peppler.org/ Sybase T-SQL/OpenClient/OpenServer/C/Perl developer available for short or long term contract positions - http://www.peppler.org/resume.html