[dmd-internals] How important are the exact formats of __DATE__, __TIME__, and __TIMESTAMP___?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 09:28:50 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Doesn't std.datetime have function for easily formatting dates and times?

It currently has very specific formats that it - such as ISO and ISO Extended. It 
does _not_ currently have any functions where you do something like give it a 
string to tell it how to format the date or time. I _do_ intend to add such 
functions at some point, but if you want really good ones that do that sort of 
thing, it takes a fair bit of design. I didn't want to take the time to do that 
when I wrote std.datetime (there was plenty of other stuff to worry about), and I 
haven't gotten around to doing it yet.

- Jonathan M Davis