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--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. -- Markus Peter - SPiN GmbH warp@spin.deThread Previous | Thread Next