From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2004-01-29T23:22:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does DBI insist on using it's own date/time classes?

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:57:43AM +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> 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.

Class Time cannot handle dates before the year 1970. And class Date
does not store hours, minutes and seconds. 

Regards,

  Michael