Please vote on std.datetime

[Rainer Schuetze]

Isn't

pragma(lib, "advapi32.lib");

supposed to take care of these implicite link dependencies?

Rainer

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday 09 December 2010 19:04:54 Yao G. wrote:
>> On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:26:13 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu
>>
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>> Jonathan M. Davis has diligently worked on his std.datetime proposal,
>>> and it has been through a few review cycles in this newsgroup.
>>>
>>> It's time to vote. Please vote for or against inclusion of datetime into
>>> Phobos, along with your reasons.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Andrei
>> I hate the SysDate name (ugly). And I hate that I must link to
>> advapi32.lib. And honestly, It gives me a strong kitchen-sinky vibe
>> (there's too much functionality). But I vote yes. Solid library.
> 
> SysTime stands for System Time. I figured that SysTime was better than having to 
> type out SystemTime.
> 
> The reason that advapi32.lib is necessary is because of the functions which are 
> used to access the registry, which is necessary for WindowsTimeZone. Presumably, 
> that would be added to the default dmd.conf file on Windows so that you wouldn't 
> have to worry about it. I'd have preferred not to need it, but there's nothing I 
> can do about it without losing functionality.
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis