On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:11:05 -0500, Steve Teale
<steve.te...@britseyeview.com> wrote:
I have moaned several times about the fact that this module does not
have a method for creating a date from the system clock.
It provides a parse method to convert a string in a limited number of
formats. In the course of doing that, it calls the OS primitive to get
the time zone offset.
So why the omission? If it's going to use the OS, why not go the whole
hog.
It also strikes me as odd that it does not include a table of leap
seconds. As it stands, some of its methods could return values that were
out by a year for up to four or five seconds on January 1 2011. I'm no
expert on UTC, Gregorian Calendar and such, so I could well be wrong,
but ....
Phobos doesn't really need the burden of such tasks. Most OS's provide
regular upgrades that cover this stuff.
Jonathan Davis has been creating a date/time library that will replace
std.time.
See earlier posts on this newsgroup about std.datetime updates
Please comment if you think there are problems with it.
-Steve
