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Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei@erdani.com> changed:

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Vladimir Panteleev <dlang-bugzilla@thecybershadow.net> changed:

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RazvanN <razvan.nitu1305@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from RazvanN <razvan.nitu1305@gmail.com> ---
They don't differ at all. toString just calls toSimpleString and forwards the result.

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--- Comment #2 from Jonathan M Davis <issues.dlang@jmdavisProg.com> ---
toString does currently call toSimpleString, but the intention is that if you actually care about the format of the string, you don't use toString. Instead, you use a function like toSimpleString or toISOExtString that's explicit about the format. toString is just intended to convert the type to a user-friendly string, not for specific formatting.

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--- Comment #3 from github-bugzilla@puremagic.com ---
Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/dlang/phobos

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/commit/57ef9199632b8cb5451f9d7d8c76aad29410db84 Fix issue 16993: Clarify documentation of std.datetime's toString functions.

I should have done this years ago, but this makes the documentation clear that std.datetime's toString is intended simply for easy printing of the type rather than for code that actually cares about the format of the string. There are other, explicit functions for code that actually cares.

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/commit/3324796a2972a2f62ac3f1b73727a5d9e3d5e011 Merge pull request #5592 from jmdavis/issue_16993

Fix issue 16993: Clarify documentation of std.datetime's toString functions. merged-on-behalf-of: Sebastian Wilzbach <sebi.wilzbach@gmail.com>

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github-bugzilla@puremagic.com changed:

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--- Comment #4 from github-bugzilla@puremagic.com ---
Commits pushed to stable at https://github.com/dlang/phobos

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/commit/57ef9199632b8cb5451f9d7d8c76aad29410db84 Fix issue 16993: Clarify documentation of std.datetime's toString functions.

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/commit/3324796a2972a2f62ac3f1b73727a5d9e3d5e011 Merge pull request #5592 from jmdavis/issue_16993

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--- Comment #5 from github-bugzilla@puremagic.com ---
Commits pushed to dmd-cxx at https://github.com/dlang/phobos

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/commit/57ef9199632b8cb5451f9d7d8c76aad29410db84 Fix issue 16993: Clarify documentation of std.datetime's toString functions.

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/commit/3324796a2972a2f62ac3f1b73727a5d9e3d5e011 Merge pull request #5592 from jmdavis/issue_16993

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