On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:34:36PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > > Deprecate localtime() and replace with ????
> >
> > I'm willing to take a first whack at this one (but only with lots of
> > input from others).
>
> I'll help. Let's call the replacement gmt2date() for now.
It might be worth considering the broader issue of date handling in
general. Should the localtime/gmtime functionality simply be included in
some date module that will handle date processing and arithmetic? The
downside seems to be that both Date::Manip and Date::Calc are currently
very large modules...
The Time::Object module currently seems to be a pretty good
compromise between all-singing-all-dancing and localtime() since if
we are going to replace localtime/gmtime with something it would be very
useful, at minimum, to allow date arithmetic on these objects.
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Tim Jenness
JCMT software engineer/Support scientist
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
