Proposal for custom time string formatting in std.datetime

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-22 20:38, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/22/11 1:32 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Now that we got to talk about std.datetime, here are three things that I
> think we could do to make it more manageable.
>
> 1. Put files in data. I find it a tad awkward that we have time zone
> information in hardcoded strings inside the code. That means any such
> change would have us redistributed Phobos. I'm thinking a small data
> file would be more appropriate. Better yet, hook into OSs timezone
> information and let the OS worry about keeping that timely.
>
> 2. datetime == time + date. We could reduce std.datetime to "public
> import std.time, std.date;" and define:
>
> (a) std.time -> everything having to do with sheer time information, no
> date-related oddities. That means the largest formalized interval would
> be the week.
>
> (b) std.date -> all of the bizarre calendar stuff, dealing with months
> and more. Naturally std.date would use std.time.

That seems like a good start to divide the module.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg