Re: [Chicken-hackers] time->string

[John Cowan]

Zbigniew scripsit:
> On Jan 19, 2008 12:59 PM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Instead, I suggest making time->string return an ISO 8601 time string of
> > the form "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss+zzzz"
> 
> Well, ISO 8601 time strings are already available in SRFI-19, and
> they're not particularly readable.  

I realize that.  The point is, if you want a function that reduces
a broken-out time object to a string, what string should you get?
The asctime(3) string strikes me as a particularly silly format.

Alternatively, you could just deprecate time->string.

> (string-append
>  (time->string (seconds->local-time (current-seconds)))
>  " " (local-timezone-abbreviation))

It's called "local" but it's not localized.

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