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Last time I added Time::ParseDate support to our date class, which made it fairly usable, if still incomplete.  This time I decided to concentrate on getting a first cut at our datetime class.

In many ways, the datetime class is simpler than the date class, because it doesn’t need to do anything fancy like truncate to midnight or try to ignore times and timezones when parsing.  Of course, datetimes do have to consider timezones, but I decided to defer that thorny issue until next time.