Hello Chris,

That article by Erik Naggum looks deeply interesting. Just loaded it to
read in bed in a few hours tonight.

Thanks for your input. Might ask you a few questions in the near future.

Luis


On 19 September 2013 20:57, Chris Peterson <cpeter...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> A Rust datetime library has been on my to-do list for a long time. :)
>
> JSR-310 is a very complete solution, but it carries a lot of Java baggage.
> C++11's std::chrono library [1] defines a smaller API for time points and
> durations without calendars (i.e. the hard part). std::chrono's API might
> be more "rustic" than JSR-310's because C++ and Rust have operator
> overloading.
>
> I strongly recommend reading Erik Naggum's "The Long, Painful History of
> Time" [2] about Common Lisp's support for the "concept of time as humans
> experience it."  :)
>
> [1] 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-**us/library/hh874757.aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh874757.aspx>
> [2] http://naggum.no/lugm-time.**html <http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html>
>
>
> chris
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