From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-01-29T01:57:43+09:00
Subject: Why does DBI insist on using it's own date/time classes?

I can't seem to figure out why DBI uses its own set of date/time 
classes. They all seem to be pretty thin, incomplete wrappers around 
the existing classes. Why not just use the existing classes directly? 
It's pretty annoying that you have to cast to the proper class every 
time you deal with a row that uses dates and want to use methods like 
strftime.
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David Heinemeier Hansson,
http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Be mindful of the creep