Re: [Chicken-hackers] time->string

[felix winkelmann]

On Jan 19, 2008 7:59 PM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> IMAO, asctime(3) is complete garbage: the fields are output in a
> meaningless order (weekday, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, year),
> there is no indication of timezone, and the result is not even properly
> localized.  The newline is just the maraschino cherry on top of this
> disgusting mess.  Even Posix says it is only included for backwards
> compatibility.

I quite agree.

>
> Instead, I suggest making time->string return an ISO 8601 time string of
> the form "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss+zzzz", where the T is literal and + means +
> or - as the case may be.  The zzzz value can be found by calling tzset()
> and examining the external C variable "timezone" declared in <tzset.h>,
> but the value must be negated as the sign is wrong.

I'd rather not mess with date/time issues - this is a tarpit. Besides, the posix
unit is just a wrapper for libc functions, we can repair the most obvious
mistakes.

But, alas: "seconds->string" has of course the same behaviour!

These eggs use it:

./spiffy/trunk/spiffy-base.scm
./spiffy/trunk/simple-directory-handler.scm
./tcp-server/tcpservertest.scm
./ajax/doc.scm
./stream-wiki/trunk/extensions/gallery.scm
./stream-wiki/trunk/extensions/archives.scm
./stream-wiki/trunk/extensions/weblog.scm
./chicken/trunk/chicken-bug.scm
./salmonella/trunk/salmonella.scm
./job-worker/tests/job-worker-test.scm
./release/3/egg-post-commit/post-commit.scm
./release/3/spiffy/trunk/spiffy-base.scm
./release/3/spiffy/trunk/simple-directory-handler.scm
./sbky/bky.scm

So, Peter, Alejandro, Mario: can we make the change?
What about svnwiki?

(it would be nice, if we can clarify this soon, as I'd like
to release 3.0.0)


cheers,
felix