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From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] date manipulation library
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:38:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030915163841.GA17530@davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030915172135.A16340@pauillac.inria.fr>

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:21:35PM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote:

> Good old Unix.mktime could perhaps do the job.  It has the ability to
> correct for impossible dates, e.g. change Sept 32nd into Oct 2nd,
> or 2003-13-01 into 2004-01-01.

This isn't as much a gripe about ocaml as Unix/Posix.  Why is there a
gmtime function to split time to UTC, but no equivalent for recombining
UTC time back into seconds?

I guess I can pull mktime out of glibc, and hack it to do this, or
perhaps play some tricks with the environment.

Dave

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-15 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-15 14:37 Alan Schmitt
2003-09-15 14:48 ` Antoine Schweitzer-Chaput
2003-09-15 15:21 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-09-15 15:40   ` Alan Schmitt
2003-09-15 16:38   ` David Brown [this message]
2003-09-15 15:22 ` Julien Signoles
2003-09-15 18:34   ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2003-09-15 18:45     ` Maxence Guesdon
2003-09-15 23:27     ` Julien Signoles
2003-09-16  7:20       ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2003-09-16  7:32         ` Mattias Waldau
2003-09-16  8:29           ` Benjamin Geer
2003-09-16 18:21             ` [Caml-list] Will Emacs camldebug-mode need an update for 3.07? Mattias Waldau
2003-09-15 15:25 ` [Caml-list] date manipulation library Matthieu Sozeau
2003-09-17  7:57 ` Pierre Weis
2003-09-17  8:24   ` Mattias Waldau
2003-09-17 15:17     ` Pierre Weis
2003-09-19 14:48       ` [Caml-list] A plea for clear licenses (Was: date manipulation library) Florian Hars
2003-09-20 14:22         ` [Caml-list] " Pierre Weis
2003-09-20 18:42         ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2003-09-21 16:33           ` Richard Jones
2003-09-23  6:28           ` [Caml-list] A plea for clear licenses Florian Hars
2003-09-23 23:17             ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2003-09-23 23:29               ` Michael Beach
2003-09-17  9:19   ` [Caml-list] date manipulation library Stefano Zacchiroli
2003-09-17 15:28     ` Pierre Weis

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