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[ccobb]

** I'm going to address your posts in reverse order so as to save space in this topic, which is truly unrelated to your investigation. **

Hmmm...actually, I was just excited about finally starting to use this cool calendar. As you can read, I started out talking about how to create a "Link to Current Calendar," which can't very well be "off topic". If I drifted a bit in my followup, this is still the Hacks and Mods section. Lighten up!

Also, A) Date_Format is not part of standard Perl, B) Date_Manip is huge and slow, and C) if this is how you respond to new users around here, perhaps I'll just keep my enthusiasm to myself from now on.

[DanO]

** As you can read, I started out talking about how to create a "Link to Current Calendar,"  **

Sorry, I missed that. All is saw (and see) is you discussing designing (or wanting) custom display variables.

** perhaps I'll just keep my enthusiasm to myself from now on. **

That's your choice. I was just trying to explain that if the information you want to contribute was more properly categorized (like in its own message tread), it would likely be easier for others to find when they come looking for it and at the same time, not dilute the original message topic.

Sorry for suggesting to try to keep these forum topics managed in some coherent way.

JMO

Dan O.

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[musicvid]

   

quote:if this is how you respond to new users around here, perhaps I'll just keep my enthusiasm to myself from now on.

I wasn't trying to make you feel defensive. I was, however, trying to keep my comments brief because I felt uncomfortable about posting a lengthy reply in a thread that I (and the Forum Mod) felt had steered off-topic. If they seemed abrupt to you, then I offer my full apology.    

quote:A) Date_Format is not part of standard Perl, B) Date_Manip is huge and slow,

Ouch! Looks like I got bit by trying to tailor my response to your POV rather than my own. So, instead of engaging in a discussion with you about two modules I rarely use, here is an example using a module that I use extensively, and is also part of the standard Perl dist. If you find it helpful, fine. If not, I'll try to stay out of the way of your excitement and enthusiasm, which are commendable.

code:

# Gets the current time in RFC822 format   
      use POSIX qw(strftime);
      my @localtime = localtime(time);
      my $BuildDate = strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z", @localtime);

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[This message has been edited by musicvid (edited March 31, 2007).]

[musicvid]

Wow, this one is a gem!

It took me a while to get it, but CCOBB is using this forum to pitch one of his own Perl Modules at CPAN, uploaded just four days ago. It's a modified version of Graham Barr's Date::Format module that has been around for years.

Not such a bad thing really, to want others to use your hard-wrought code, but why go to such great lengths to disguise your intentions? Why not just tell us about it?

Now, the reason for the unrelated posts, strange code to solve a nonexistent problem, defensiveness, and indifference to existing solutions suddenly becomes clear. And it never was explained why anyone would want to install additional modules and modify calendar.pl to display a date format that can easily be done without any modification to existing variables. Certainly the new params in his module aren't the reason, because they aren't even used in the examples he gave . . .

Wondering when that nice, extensible, cool, and best calendar around that he is so excited and enthusiastic about will show up on his website . . . .

[This message has been edited by musicvid (edited April 01, 2007).]