Formatted date

[Lishaak Bystroushaak]

Oh, ok, thanks for your answer.

2011/11/4 Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>:
> On Thursday, November 03, 2011 16:58 Lishaak Bystroushaak wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Is there any way how to format date with formating strings? Something
>> like strftime in python;
>> http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior
>
> Not currently. SysTime (and the other time point types in std.datetime) have
> functions for converting them to specific ISO standards but not custom
> formatting strings. That's in the works but hasn't been completed yet.
>
> In the meantime, you can get a time_t from a SysTime using its unixTime
> property and pass that to C's strftime (though be warned that it risks being
> an hour off on Windows, since for some bizarre reason Windows applies DST to
> UTC such that time_t on Windows isn't actually guaranteed to always be the
> number of seconds since midnight January 1st, 1970 in UTC).
>
> Another alternative is that someone ported the deprecated std.dateparse (which
> worked with the deprecated and very broken std.date) to use SysTime, and you
> can use that: https://gist.github.com/1283011
>
> toCustomString will be added to SysTime and the other time point types in
> std.datetime, but its design hasn't been completed sorted out yet, let alone
> fully implemented, so it's in the works, but it could be a little while before
> it makes it into Phobos.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>