[local-time-devel] why no arithmetic

[Attila Lendvai]

>  I read the paper from Eric and thought this would include support for
>  doing date arithmetic and duration representation.
>
>  Although looking back at the paper I see that the Common Lisp
>  implementation parts in the paper did not mention date arithmetic even
>  though the paper did talk about it.

there's a patch waiting for approval in our branch that implements arithmetic:

darcs pull http://www.common-lisp.net/project/cl-dwim/darcs/local-time

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 attila