OpenEuphoria

Re: Standard library - date and time

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cowg?r?com> Apr 22, 2008
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I agree with a few points made.

1. Let's not change the existing date() and time() functions. We are adding to
the standard library, not redesigning it. If there was a major flaw, that may be
different, but date() currently provides information than many applications rely
on and it will provide all the information that many people need. As time
progresses, it may become used less and less and maybe at that time we can visit
the idea of deprecating it (if that time comes).

2. We should prefix some things. For instance, the map functions deal with maps
and task function deal with tasks. They are very specific and are not generic
functions such as, min, max, remove, etc... I think date_now(), datetime_now()
makes sense. For instance, we may be date_to_seconds() and also
time_to_seconds(). We *need* to prefix those for them to make sense. to_seconds()
... how would it know if it's working on a date, time or both?

I have found three email addresses for Carl (author of datetime) and have sent
an email asking if it could be included in Euphoria. datetime has a copyright
statement and no released license.

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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com