Re: $head->get issues possibly.

My suggestion is to either return it as a string and make explicit warnings 
in the docs that it may or may not be valid, or else try to return a 
DateTime object.  Or maybe both.  E.g. date() returns the string and 
datetime() returns a DateTime object.  Look at DateTime::Format::Mail and 
see if that will do well enough for getting the string to a standard 
date.  It has a "loose" parsing setting, but dies if unparseable so needs 
to be wrapped in an eval block.  Other DateTime::Format modules, e.g. 
::Strptime, might work as well.

David

At 4/5/2004 07:23 PM, Mark Overmeer wrote:
>* Roderick A. Anderson ([email protected]) [040406 01:20]:
> > On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Mark Overmeer wrote:
> >   I thought I'd tried $msg->date and got even worst values returned.
> > Looks like I'll have to do some more testing of the returned value before
> > thinking it is a good date string.
>
>If you have a good solution, please tell me... I would like to improve
>$msg->date.
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