With no argument, format returns the object's current date_format. Otherwise it attempts to
set the object format to the supplied value.
-Some previously desireable functions are now unnecessary. For example, you might want a
+Some previously desirable functions are now unnecessary. For example, you might want a
method/function to tell you whether or not a Dates.pm object is of the 'iso' type. But you
can see by this example that such a test is trivial to accomplish, and not necessary to
include in the module:
Perhaps you want to force data obtained in a known format to display according to the user's system
preference, without necessarily knowing what that preference is. For this purpose, you can use the
-psuedo-format argument "syspref".
+pseudo-format argument "syspref".
For example, to print an ISO date (from the database) in the <systempreference> format: