Re: $head->get issues possibly.

* David A Golden ([email protected]) [040406 06:21]:
> 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.

In stead of a "DateTime" object to return, I choose for a timestamp
value, which can be used immediately in all kind of formatting and
calculations.  The things are handled in
  Mail::Message::Field::dateToTimestamp()
calling Date::Parse::str2time.  That funtion is really flexible in
accepting formats.  For reading that's ok: be as flexible as you can
in accepting information, and as strict to the RFCs when you produce it.
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               MarkOv

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