std.date proposal

[Fredrik Olsson]

Stewart Gordon skrev:
> Fredrik Olsson wrote:
> 
>> I have created a proposal for a std.date replacement. And announce it 
>> here in hopes of some comments and criticism.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Preliminary comments:
> 
> 1. It's "millennuim" (singular), "millennia" (plural).  Two 'n's.  Not 
> "millenia".  And why no CENTURY?
> 
Check, corrected. And century added wherever proper. Added Julian day 
when I was at it.

> 2. What is UDT?
> 
That would be a misspelled UTC, shamefully corrected now.

> 3. I think you should leave out the "3/10/06" format because of the 
> inherent ambiguity.  And in English, the third month is called March, 
> not mars.
> 
Spelling corrected, I bet there is more, way more...
"M/D/Y" will stay I think, it is the US way, ambiguous or not, and there 
is allot of code/people out there making this assumption. If I could 
choose myself we would all go ISO :).
Perhaps a mode flag should be added, to prefer YMD, DMY or MDY whenever 
an ambiguity exists?


> 4. How does your module deal with time zones?
> 
Pretty much as SQL99 does, that is you choose with or without time zone 
when time is created. Time zones are parsed, but currently ignored. I 
think the best option is to let the user simply choose if dates should 
be adjusted to UTC or to local when parsed.


> 5. I've also written an alternative to std.date.  Please check it out:
> 
I like it, looks neat and clean, and in no way competing I think. On the 
contrary I would like yours to grow and complement, as I see it a OOP 
Date/Time library on top of mine would be the best solution. Sort of 
like how std.stdio should work as the under layer for a more feature 
complete module on top.

I intend to do the bare bones, a solid foundation to build on top, and 
to be easy to do small stuff. Intervals, timezones, and more advanced 
stuff should be done with wrappers on top.


> http://pr.stewartsplace.org.uk/d/sutil/
> 
> Stewart.
>