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Jonathan Scott Duff <duff@cbi.tamucc.edu> writes: > Do you mean local time now or local time for all time? The former is > easy, the latter hard. Well, it's not hard for those places where the > offset from UTC has remained (mostly) constant, but there are some > places that have an offset from UTC that is a function of time more > complex than daylight savings. > Or would C<date()> just use C<localtime()> and punt to the OS/C > RTL/etc.? It should just punt. ANSI/ISO C already requires that the C localtime call deal with all of this. We can look at providing our own localtime if the system is grossly deficient in this respect, but that's an internals rather than a language issue. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>Thread Previous | Thread Next