On Sunday, March 30, 2014 08:25:42 Andre Artus wrote: > Considering the international spread of D users I find it > surprising that the date & time formatting functions in phobos > are not localizable.
If could go back, there wouldn't even be anything to localize. toSimpleString is there because it was in Boost (and it's what toString uses), but by having _three_ different string functions for each type instead of just ISO and ISO Extended. So, that's arguably bad - certainly it overcomplicates things IMHO. And toSimpleString uses English names for the months which is _definitely_ bad, because it opens up the question of localization, which I see no reason to deal with in this context, especially because it opens up a huge can of worms. By sticking to ISO and ISO Extended, we'd be completely standards compliant and would avoid the whole localization issue entirely. As it stands, we just acknowledge that it's stupid that toSimpleString is there (thereby introducing the question of localization) and have agreed that localization is outside the scope of std.datetime. Unfortunately, removing toSimpleString would obviously break code, and changing toString to do the same as toISOExtString (as it probably should) could also break code if there's code in the wild which relies on the exact format of toString. So, we're kind of stuck. - Jonathan M Davis