On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:21:35AM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote: > Hi, thanks for the feedback.
Hello! > A time and date library is on the table for WG2, but it's a > surprisingly complicated subject. For example, the > interface you give doesn't provide any accessors on the time > object. Presumably, once you add these, you need to get > into the topic of timezones, which aren't simple offsets > from UTC but rather complex geopolitical concepts. Then > there are leap-seconds, and dates and calendars, etc. and > it's a nightmare. And Gregorian isn't the only calendar > that matters - neither of the two calendar systems I use > most frequently are Gregorian. OK, I see the problem! > Something like just a vaguely specified (current-seconds) > might be reasonable though. Yes -- that would be nice. I see that my idea was a bit overengineered. The time procedures then could in theory be implemented using (current-seconds). J. _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
