Bug #101188 for DBD-XBase: last_update fixed to useless stupid US date format

Mon Dec 29 08:06:14 2014 HMBRAND [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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last_update fixed to useless stupid US date format

Please use ISO or allow end-user to specify a *useful* format for dates $out=$self->{'file_lupdmm'}."/".$self->{'file_lupddd'}."/".$self->{'file_lupdyy'}; is quite useless in countries where they have sense and use DD-MM-YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD

Mon Dec 29 12:41:27 2014 JANPAZ [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

You've filed the ticket against the DBD::XBase package which does not contain the code in question. Searching around, it's present in http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PRATP/Xbase-1.07/Xbase.pm which hasn't been updated for 18 years. So even filing against Xbase is not very likely to help. I recommend to try the actual DBD::XBase -- http://search.cpan.org/~janpaz/DBD-XBase-1.05/. Its get_last_change returns the date as YYYY/MM/DD.

Mon Dec 29 12:41:28 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Dec 29 12:41:34 2014 JANPAZ [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'

Mon Dec 29 14:37:07 2014 h.m.brand [...] xs4all.nl - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #101188] last_update fixed to useless stupid US date format
Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:36:44 +0100
To:	bug-DBD-XBase [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	"H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand [...] xs4all.nl>

On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 12:41:28 -0500, "Jan_Pazdziora via RT" <bug-DBD-XBase@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101188 > > > You've filed the ticket against the DBD::XBase package which does > not contain the code in question.

I'm so sorry. Show quoted text

> Searching around, it's present in > http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PRATP/Xbase-1.07/Xbase.pm which hasn't > been updated for 18 years. So even filing against Xbase is not very > likely to help.

You're right. Show quoted text

> I recommend to try the actual DBD::XBase -- > http://search.cpan.org/~janpaz/DBD-XBase-1.05/. Its get_last_change > returns the date as YYYY/MM/DD.

'/' is not acceptable either in the Netherlands. I've used DBD::XBase too to analyze my own short version of dbf2csv -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.21 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

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Mon Dec 29 14:54:25 2014 JANPAZ [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Mon Dec 29 14:37:07 2014, h.m.brand@xs4all.nl wrote: Show quoted text

> > '/' is not acceptable either in the Netherlands.

There's always perl to turn slashes into dashes or empty strings. ;-)