<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My main concern with local-time is that it is *Nix specific (attempts<br>to load timezone information from /etc/localtime) and i'm currently
<br>developing on Windows right now, yes pity me.</blockquote><div><br>i think that could pretty easily be solved by including the timezone information into the local-time package in one way or another (mostly thinking of licencing issues here).
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">What is completely missing in cl-l10n is date/time comparisons.<br>I'm still not too sure what is the best way to go about this, sticking
<br>with straight numerical representations for time, while handy, still<br>feels a little wrong.<br><br>I'm pretty fond of clsql's wall-time and duration classes (along<br>with various operations on them). What i would like to see, without
<br>thinking about it too much, is wall-time and duration moved into a separate<br>package which we could use.</blockquote><div><br>yep, that's what i would like to see fulfilled by local-time. we'll see... local-time looks better tought out at first glance then the clsql stuff, but it might be lacking some features. although looking at the releases it looks like it's actively being worked on.
<br><br>so optimally i imagine it like this: local-time handles all the nifty details of the leap years and friends, date arithmetic, interval handling, etc... as a standalone lib. then cl-l10n integrates these services into its own locale specific services, which may even involve things like the handling of the timezone information in some way (i'm thinking of something similar to how the locale files are parsed/loaded).
<br><br>i've cc'd Daniel so that he can follow the discussion.<br><br></div></div>-- <br>- attila<br><br>"- The truth is that I've been too considerate, and so became unintentionally cruel...<br> - I understand.<br> - No, you don't understand! We don't speak the same language!"
<br>(Ingmar Bergman - Smultronstället)