Re: calander package

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote in message <98ltmj$90q$1@nh.pace.co.uk>...

>I've built my own to generate the date/time in a whole variety of
formats
>because on any number of occasions you might need it different ways.
Maybe I
>should revisit this code with the goal of consolidating it down to
fewer
>routines with more options? A dozen or so formats suggests an enumeral
and
>the rest would be some flavor of "What character(s) do you like for
>separators?" and "Did you want the current time or are you going to
give me
>a time of your own?"

I've done this dozens of times, too. So, when the problem came up with
the Smplsrvr, we went ahead and added a package of operations to Claw.
The Claw.Time package really doesn't depend on Claw itself (nor on
Windows), so it could be used separately. It's in the Claw Introductory
version, which is available for free non-commerical use at
www.rrsoftware.com.

I was thinking about proposing something on this line to the ARG for
standardization, but it unclear that the ARG is interested in
(semi-)standardizing these sorts of packages. (It seems to run about
50-50 within the membership as to whether time should be spent on it.
The objections mostly are that there are more important things to work
on.)

                Randy Brukardt.