perlmeditation autarch <p> A week ago, I posted <a href="http://archive.develooper.com/datetime@perl.org/msg00387.html">a message</a> to the <a href="http://archive.develooper.com/datetime@perl.org/">datetime@perl.org</a> which can be summarized like this. </p> <p> "Dealing with dates and times in Perl sucks. There's lots of good modules out there, but no two have a similar API, none is feature complete, and none of them play nice together. Oh, and there's no decent time zone code either. Let's fix it." </p> <p> Since then, there's been a <i>lot</i> of discussion (318 messages in 8 days (eek, about 43% or so by me!)) and some code written, even! </p> <p> So if this is a topic that interests you, please join the datetime@perl.org list. While I am playing dictator, there's lots of things to discuss, particularly module APIs, and lots of date/time things I don't know about or understand properly, so there will be lots of work for interested parties. </p>