std.date

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:11:05 -0500, Steve Teale  
<steve.teale at britseyeview.com> wrote:

> I have moaned several times about the fact that this module does not  
> have a method for creating a date from the system clock.
>
> It provides a parse method to convert a string in a limited number of  
> formats. In the course of doing that, it calls the OS primitive to get  
> the time zone offset.
>
> So why the omission? If it's going to use the OS, why not go the whole  
> hog.
>
> It also strikes me as odd that it does not include a table of leap  
> seconds. As it stands, some of its methods could return values that were  
> out by a year for up to four or five seconds on January 1 2011. I'm no  
> expert on UTC, Gregorian Calendar and such, so I could well be wrong,  
> but ....
>
> Phobos doesn't really need the burden of such tasks. Most OS's provide  
> regular upgrades that cover this stuff.

Jonathan Davis has been creating a date/time library that will replace  
std.time.

See earlier posts on this newsgroup about std.datetime updates

Please comment if you think there are problems with it.

-Steve