Re: [Caml-list] two unrelated questions

[Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>]

[This is getting a bit off-topic, sorry]

On 29-Apr-2001, Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com> wrote:
> For instance if you want to get a date but don't want to
> "pollute" the namespace with an open'ed Unix module you can write 
> 
> let get_date () =
>   let module M = struct
>       open Unix
>       let current_time = localtime (time())
>       let current_date =
>         { year   = current_time.tm_year
>         ; month  = current_time.tm_mon + 1
>         ; day    = current_time.tm_mday
>         ; hour   = current_time.tm_hour
>         ; minute = current_time.tm_min
>         ; second = current_time.tm_sec
>         }
>     end
>   in M.current_date

If you're going to adjust the month, then you should
adjust the year too:

	{ year   = current_time.tm_year + 1900

Otherwise the results will match neither human usage, nor Posix.

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