Re: RFC 48 (v1) Replace localtime() and gmtime() with da

[Tim Jenness]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:

> > > > Also, I would vote for a method to return the Julian date (yes I am an
> > > > astronomer...) :-)
> > 
> > But surely not as a part of the core language?
> 
> Exactly. In fact, I'm going to chop a lot of the original proposal out.
> It's too bloated for core. 
> 
> There's a lot of cool time/date stuff, but there's plenty of chance for
> external modules for that (including backwards localtime()
> compatibility).
> 
> -Nate
> 

Agreed. It was getting a bit out of hand (although in principal Julian
date could be the internal format :-) ). What is the reason why any of
this has to be in the core? Could all the date/time stuff be moved into a
standard module? Is localtime() used often enough to justify being part of
the language?

-- 
Tim Jenness
JCMT software engineer/Support scientist
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj