Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:37:28 +1000, Abby (J.P.) <the.ueabraham@laposte.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>      char[] thetime = toTimeString(UTCtoLocalTime(getUTCtime()));
> 
> It isn't documented but the input to toTimeString() is assumed to be UTC, and it outputs a Local time string.
> 
> --Derek Parnell
> Melbourne, Australia
Oh I see, so it adds two times the GMT+2 shift !
GMT+2 (UTCtoLocalTime()) + GMT+2 (toTimeString()) = GMT+4 !

Thanks :)
--
Abby

Abby (J.P.) wrote:
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:37:28 +1000, Abby (J.P.) <the.ueabraham@laposte.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>      char[] thetime = toTimeString(UTCtoLocalTime(getUTCtime()));
>>
>>
>> It isn't documented but the input to toTimeString() is assumed to be UTC, and it outputs a Local time string.
>>
>> --Derek Parnell
>> Melbourne, Australia
> 
> Oh I see, so it adds two times the GMT+2 shift !
> GMT+2 (UTCtoLocalTime()) + GMT+2 (toTimeString()) = GMT+4 !
> 
> Thanks :)
> -- 
> Abby



Alternatively, use the Mango library. There's the 'traditional' approach shown below, and there's also a rather powerful "locale" package, with all kinds of calanders and locale-sensitive formatters ...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

private import mango.io.Print;
private import mango.sys.Epoch;

void main ()
{
        Epoch.Fields fields;

        // get current time and convert to local
        fields.setLocalTime (Epoch.utcMilli);

        // get GMT difference
        int tz = Epoch.tzMinutes;
        char sign = '+';
        if (tz < 0)
            tz = -tz, sign = '-';

        // format fields
        Println ("%.3s %.3s %02d %02d:%02d:%02d GMT%c%02d%02d %d",
                 fields.toDowName,
                 fields.toMonthName,
                 fields.day,
                 fields.hour,
                 fields.min,
                 fields.sec,
                 sign,
                 tz / 60,
                 tz % 60,
                 fields.year
                 );
}

kris wrote:
> Abby (J.P.) wrote:
> 
>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:37:28 +1000, Abby (J.P.) <the.ueabraham@laposte.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>      char[] thetime = toTimeString(UTCtoLocalTime(getUTCtime()));
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It isn't documented but the input to toTimeString() is assumed to be UTC, and it outputs a Local time string.
>>>
>>> --Derek Parnell
>>> Melbourne, Australia
>>
>>
>> Oh I see, so it adds two times the GMT+2 shift !
>> GMT+2 (UTCtoLocalTime()) + GMT+2 (toTimeString()) = GMT+4 !
>>
>> Thanks :)
>> -- 
>> Abby
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Alternatively, use the Mango library. There's the 'traditional' approach shown below, and there's also a rather powerful "locale" package, with all kinds of calanders and locale-sensitive formatters ...
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> private import mango.io.Print;
> private import mango.sys.Epoch;
> 
> void main ()
> {
>         Epoch.Fields fields;
> 
>         // get current time and convert to local
>         fields.setLocalTime (Epoch.utcMilli);
> 
>         // get GMT difference
>         int tz = Epoch.tzMinutes;
>         char sign = '+';
>         if (tz < 0)
>             tz = -tz, sign = '-';
> 
>         // format fields
>         Println ("%.3s %.3s %02d %02d:%02d:%02d GMT%c%02d%02d %d",
>                  fields.toDowName,
>                  fields.toMonthName,
>                  fields.day,
>                  fields.hour,
>                  fields.min,
>                  fields.sec,
>                  sign,
>                  tz / 60,
>                  tz % 60,
>                  fields.year
>                  );
> }

With mango.locale, it's as simple as this:

	DateTime.now.toString("ddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z");

Which outputs this (for the en-gb locale):

	Thu, 27 April 2006 18:20:47 +1

Stewart Gordon Wrote:


> Look at std.date or any of various third-party libraries, such as mine:
> 
> http://pr.stewartsplace.org.uk/d/sutil/

Nice!  I like the hashmap.