Setting dates

[Joel via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 05:58:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via 
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Friday, July 11, 2014 04:01:24 Joel via Digitalmars-d-learn 
> wrote:
>> I've been trying to set a date for my program (a small struct):
>>
>> import std.datetime;
>>
>> auto date = cast(DateTime)Clock.currTime();
>> setDate(date.day, date.month, date.year);
>>
>> Problem is that day & month are not integers. And 
>> date.day.to!int
>> doesn't work either.
>
> You're going to need to provid more details. SetDate is not a 
> standard
> function, so it must be yours, and we don't know anything about 
> it - not even
> its signature, which makes it awfully hard to help you.
>
> That being said, date.day returns ubyte, date.month returns
> std.datetime.Month, and date.year returns ushort, all of which 
> implicitly
> convert to int. So, I don't see why you would be having an 
> problems converting
> them to int. This compiles just fine
>
>     int year = date.year;
>     int month = date.month;
>     int day = date.day;
>
> And date.day.to!int or date.day.to!int() both compile just fine 
> as long as you
> import std.conv. But calling to!int() is completely 
> unnecessary, because the
> conversion is implicit, as show above.
>
> So, without more details, we can't help you.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Thanks for the reply, Jonathan. I think I've got it working now.