Re: DateTime 5-year anniversary

On 1/15/08, Dave Rolsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I kind of missed it, as it was January 9th. I've been reading my old
> use Perl journal posts and that led me to the post that basically started
> the Perl DateTime project back in 2003 -
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.datetime/2003/01/msg388.html
>
> Thanks to everyone who's contributed over the years. I don't think we
> realized that we'd end up creating _the_ definitive set of Perl date/time
> libraries, to the point where a _lot_ of people say "oh, I just use
> DateTime for everything".
>
> Even better, I think we still have one of the best date/time library
> suites of _any_ language out there. The only thing I've seen in all this
> time that comes close is the Chronos library for Smalltalk, myself.

I would like to thank you. In my former job I had to solve lots of
issues dealing with dates, until I stumbled upon DateTime. I think it
is one of the most useful and reliable modules out there, and you are
right, it is the best date & time module in any language.

Regards,
-- 
Leonardo Herrera
http://pipes.epublish.cl/