Re: tv_grab_sd_json: ISO8601

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 3:31 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there any particular reason for using ISO8601 in this grabber?


Because this is pretty much the first Perl program I have ever written and
I didn't know anything about parsing dates in perl?  The SD JSON data uses
ISO8601 date formats so I probably googled "perl ISO8601" and
DataTime::Format::ISO8601 was the first hit that seemed like the right
thing to do.


> DateTime::Format::ISO8601 has a lot more (compile-time) dependencies than
> DateTime::Format::DateParse and is therefore harder to install on older
> machines. :-(
>
> If you don't need the extra power of ISO8601 then wouldn't DateParse do
> the job?
>

I don't even know what extra power the DateTime::Format::ISO8601 module has
compared to DateTime::Format::DateParse.  Looking at the docs very quickly
didn't really clue me in either.

I tried replacing the three occurrences of
"DateTime::Format::ISO8601->parse_datetime" with
"DateTime::Format::DateParse->parse_datetime".  This caused the
previously-shown date to be off in some cases.  I assume this could
probably be fixed without too much effort.

What do others think?  Would it be better to use
DateTime::Format::DateParse if possible?


Kevin

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