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From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at peppler dot org>
Subject: RE: ISO8601 date formats
Date: Sep 21 2004 1:08PM
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:59, Avis, Ed wrote:
> Michael Peppler wrote:
>
> >I'm thinking of adding support for conversion to ISO8601 date/time
> >formats to DBD::Sybase.
>
> Supporting standard date formats is good but why does it belong in
> DBD::Sybase? There are already a dozen modules for date conversions.
1) it's easy
2) The existing Sybase date formats are locale-dependent, which causes
potential problems when you need to parse the date
3) The conversion (in C) is ultra-fast, something that is important in a
module that might pull a lot of data...
Michael
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