std.gregorian

[Walter Bright]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> FWIW, I have used boost date_time in the past, but I didn't really like 
> it.  Particularly the part where every unit is its own type (dunno, that 
> may have changed, it was several years ago that I used it).  If we could 
> try to combine these types together, I think it would be beneficial.


I haven't looked at that Boost package, but the idea behind that is if month and 
year have different types, bugs where a year value is mistaken for a month can 
be headed off at compile time. There's some modern thought that this is a good 
style for programming. We'll see how it pans out.