Please vote on std.datetime

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday 09 December 2010 16:26:13 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Jonathan M. Davis has diligently worked on his std.datetime proposal,
> and it has been through a few review cycles in this newsgroup.
> 
> It's time to vote. Please vote for or against inclusion of datetime into
> Phobos, along with your reasons.

Well, I'm obviously voting for inclusion. ;)

I wrote it. I'm not about to claim that it's perfect, but overall I like it and 
think that it's quite good. Unfortunately, either most everyone likes it and has 
said nothing, or they (understandably) didn't want to read it.

I would point out though, that as it stands, including std.datetime would 
require including my time module as core.time (which has been discussed to some 
extent with Sean, since it was pretty much his idea in the first place that some 
level of integration should occur there) as well as including my unittests 
module as something like std.unittests (which was reviewed here on some level, 
and has definitely been improved from its initial version, but hasn't exactly had 
overwhelming support). The unittest functions could be integrated privately into 
std.datetime, but I think that that would be a disservice to the community at 
large.

Regardless, I'm obviously for including it.

- Jonathan M Davis


P.S. The most recent code is here: http://is.gd/hYwOV