On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:13:40 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Thursday, October 13, 2011 22:09:39 Vladimir Panteleev wrote: >> Time formatting and parsing seems like a gap of missing functionality >> in Phobos 2. > > It formats and parses specific, official formats just fine, but it > doesn't currently support user-defined formats. It's on my TODO list. > Eventually, there will be something along the lines of toCustomString > and fromCustomString on Date, TimeOfDay, DateTime, and SysTime, where > they take a format string defining the custom format. > > - Jonathan M Davis
For my use dateparse was actually want I wanted. I was pulling out strings saying, "Hey this looks like it might be a date, what do you think?" "Yeah, cool thank you." I don't wish to try and push it back into Phobos but thought others may well still be interested as I was.
