Even after installing the DateTime plugin for it, it's not tersifying for me. I'm not sure if it's me using it incorrectly, or if it's not working for some other reason[1].

That said, I see promise with this. I use Data::Dump with a custom handler to make dumping of DateTime and specific DBIC subclass objects much more palatable based on whether the current item being recursed's ISA. e.g. 'sprintf "%s [%s]", $_[1], $_[1]->time_zone->name' for DateTime objects.

Having that abstracted away into a module with plugins would simplify that quite a bit.

1: Non-working tersification: # perl -E 'use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Data::Tersify qw(tersify); use Data::Tersify::Plugin::DateTime; use DateTime; my $dt = DateTime->now; say "### RAW ###"; say $dt; say "\n\n### DUMPER ###"; say Dumper($dt); say "\n\n### TERSIFIED ###"; say Dumper(tersify($dt));'