Re: new DateTime::Format module

> Right, the confusion is that there is a DateTime::Span class, and  
> I'd expect DateTime::Format::Span to take an object of that class  
> and format it.
>
> However, your module only operates on durations. Even more  
> confusingly, it offers a "format_duration" method which only accepts  
> a single duration, which is _not_ a span.
>
> This really is not a good name for your module, because of this  
> reason.

Ah I see, that does make sense. I see what he means now. I'm not sure  
how I didn't see that. I'll take it offline until I can get a better  
name.

>> Some of the information you define in the locale modules does exist  
>> in CLDR, notably singular versions of things like "day", "month",  
>> etc.

if you add the singular and plural information to the auto generated  
DateTime::Locale I'd be happy to use it instead

> CLDR also includes formats for doing things like formatting a span  
> based on the "greatest unit of differnece" between two dates. It's  
> rather complicated, so I haven't implemented it yet. Basically, it  
> lets you format something intelligently so you get "Jan 10-12" vs  
> "Jan 10 - Feb 10".

cool