Re: RFC 48 (v2) Replace localtime() and gmtime() with da

[Bart Lateur]

On 11 Aug 2000 16:22:33 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:

>Currently, Perl uses the C library C<localtime()> and C<gmtime()>
>functions for date access. However, because of many problems, these
>should be replaced with two new functions, C<date()> and
>C<gmtdate()>

Gee, yet again, we'll get two virtually identical but still separate
functions. The original RFC tried to get rid of that, and replace them
by just one function. Why did this sneak back in? Why is it yet again
not possible to get the local time in another time zone?

-- 
        Bart.