D2 phobos std.date question

[John C]

Sam Hu Wrote:

> Stewart Gordon Wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Read the source of std.date and see for yourself.  If it's getting it 
> > wrong, it suggests either your system is misconfigured or you're using 
> > it wrongly.  But since you still haven't posted your code, I still can't 
> > comment further.
> > 
> > Stewart.
> 
> Thank you so much again.
> Actually I just tried the example based on the one inside the std.date source:
> /*************************************
>  * Converts UTC time into a text string of the form:
>  * "Www Mmm dd hh:mm:ss GMT+-TZ yyyy".
>  * For example, "Tue Apr 02 02:04:57 GMT-0800 1996".
>  * If time is invalid, i.e. is d_time_nan,
>  * the string "Invalid date" is returned.
>  *
>  * Example:
>  * ------------------------------------
>  */
>   d_time lNow;
>   string lNowString;//char[] lNowString;
> 
>   // Grab the date and time relative to UTC
>   lNow = std.date.getUTCtime();
>   // Convert this into the local date and time for display.
>   lNowString = std.date.toString(lNow);
>  /* ------------------------------------
>  */
> //And add testing below:
> d_time localTime=std.date.UTCtoLocalTime(lNow);
> string localTimeString=std.date.toString(localTime);
> 
> writefln(lNowString);
> writefln(localTimeString);
> 
> ===========
> output:
> ===========
> Wed Jul 15 01:47:42 GMT+0000 2009
> Wed Jul 15 01:47:42 GMT+0000 2009
> 
> 
> 

There's a bug in Phobos where the value used to calculate timezone offsets (localTZA) never gets initialised, because std_date_static_this() is not called.

A temporary fix is to import std.datebase.

John.