On 16/11/2010 19:11, Steve Teale 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.
Does getUTCtime() not do this? What does it do then?
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It also strikes me as odd that it does not include a table of leap
seconds.
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What, exactly, would it do with this table?
std.date works internally in Unix time. I don't know what platforms
have leap second support in the system clock. But one thing I do know
is that Unix time, which is what std.date works in, is defined so that
23:59:60.xxx has the same value as 00:00:00.xxx the following day.
FWIW, my utility library
http://pr.stewartsplace.org.uk/d/sutil/
makes it possible to store leap second times, but otherwise doesn't do
anything with them.
It also includes a custom formatting scheme that's better than any other
I've seen.
Stewart.
