2010/11/3 Hugo Arregui <hugo.arre...@gmail.com>: > [...] > 1) Using posix: > > (use posix) > (time->string (string->time "2" "%d")) > "Tue Jan 2 00:00:00 1900" > > but, my current locale es: > > (use locale) > (current-locale) > "es_AR.utf8" > [...]
Hello, the POSIX functions use the C standard library's locale which is entirely independent from that of the locale egg. In fact, if you set the C library's locale to anything else than "C", all hell breaks lose inside CHICKEN: For example the reader will no longer recognize floating point numbers in the standard Scheme format. If you are lucky numbers in the C library locale's format will be recognized, but if the locale happens to change the decimal point to something else than #\. it is very likely that no floating point numbers will be recognized at all by the reader. If you change the C library's locale at all from inside a Scheme program, I would advise to keep this change strictly local to the application of procedures like time->string and always ensure that the locale is reset to "C" upon exit from the relevant dynamic scopes. Ciao, Thomas -- When C++ is your hammer, every problem looks like your thumb. _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
