On 20/04/2012 21:29, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Is there a way to format std.datetime.Date objects with a custom format
string?
My utility library has a datetime module with a custom formatting facility.
http://pr.stewartsplace.org.uk/d/sutil/
The format string scheme is one of my own design, using repeated-letter format specifiers
similar to those found in some other schemes, and designed to be logical, natural-looking,
extensible and easy to remember.
It doesn't currently have functions to convert between its types and those in
std.datetime, but it's straightforward to construct a DateTimeComponents from a
std.datetime.Date structure and then call its format method, if you still want to use the
std.datetime API and just use my library for formatting.
In particular, I'd like to reuse month short names defined in
std.datetime, but it appears that the names are private. I'd really
rather not duplicate them by hand, if there's a way to get them.
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My library has these arrays public. But I agree that it was somewhat gratuitous to make
them private in std.datetime.
Stewart.
