how to parse a string into a phobos datatype with additional logic

[Marc Schütz via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 7 April 2016 at 08:06:03 UTC, Puming wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 April 2016 at 07:45:06 UTC, yawniek wrote:
>> what is the way one is supposed to parse e.g. a
>> double of unixtime (as delived by nginx logs) into a SysTime?
>>
>> currently i'm creating a wrapper struct around SysTime with 
>> alias this as:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/yannick/6caf5a5184beea0c24f35d9d4a4c7783
>>
>> really ugly imho.
>>
>> is there a better way to do this?
>
> you mean 
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_datetime.html#.SysTime.fromUnixTime 
> ?

That one only accepts `long`, though, so you'd lose sub-second 
precision.