Re: timelines from GEDCOM files

Stephen Pickles schreef:
> It did matter for my application, and I ended up abandoning Date::Manip
> and writing my own date parser. As I was only interested in exact dates,
> I could safely skip variants like "Feb 1978", "BEF 17 FEB 1978", "AFT 1977"
> and so on. Hence I don't claim to have a generic GEDCOM date parser.

I've written a generic GEDCOM date parser a couple of years ago; see
<http://search.cpan.org/~pijll/Gedcom-Date-0.04/>. It can parse all
valid date formats of the GEDCOM 5.5 standard.

Maybe you knew that already, in which case I would like to know what I
can improve to make it useful to you.

Eugene