DMD 0.153 release

[Walter Bright]

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Because sometimes very large values are passed to these functions. I 
>> have a test app that does that.
> But what is the practical use of being able to pass such huge arguments 
> as the day or month?

Test programs often aren't practical; they test the limits. And the 
limits should work without silent overflow.


> Still, people are no doubt already confused by the idea that you're 
> supposed to pass a number of milliseconds since 1970 as the year, month, 
> day, hour, minute, second or millisecond component when constructing a 
> date/time.

The only thing confusing is it isn't documented.

> At least, these parameters should be long rather than 
> d_time.  Unless I'm missing something then there's nothing to lose, and 
> some sanity in the code (and eventual documentation) to gain.
> 
> Stewart.