--On 22.08.2000 12:18 Uhr -0400 Chris Nandor wrote:
> Yes, well you did say, "In my opinion there's no reason for localtime or
> gmtime to be in the core at all." I guess that doesn't necessarily mean
> it should be removed in your opinion, but it sure seems like it.
As I said - my mail was easy to misinterpret ;-) But enough of that.
>
>> What I actually wanted to express is that it's fairly useless in many
>> cases and should be accompanied with useful date/time support in the
>> standard distribution.
>
> Yes, we should.
Great.
>
>> Well - I'd actually prefer useful Time/Date manipulations on 80% of the
>> systems to the current situation.
>
> And what's wrong with 100 percent, which seems to me to be achievable if
> we supply the information with whatever module handles the calculations?
Well - after all it's just an implementation detail... My question is what's
wrong to only supply the information on perl ports where systems do not
have zoneinfo ? But I've to admit that I don't really care as long as we
finally have complete standard support for time/date operations.
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Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH
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