"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote in message news:mailman.80.1304923988.14074.digitalmars-d-le...@puremagic.com... > > I could look at writing an article on moving from std.date to > std.datetime, I > suppose. We already have an article contest going, and it would make sense > to > put such an article on the site. > > I don't really have anywhere online that I can post anything myself > though, > let alone links to whatever newsgroup posts might be useful for > understanding > std.datetime. >
You could put it on the D Wiki: http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi Or if you just want to post some non-wiki pages, I'd be happy to post them on my server for you: www.semitwist.com > I would have hoped that the documentation in std.datetime would have been > sufficient, but either it isn't and/or it's just too overwhelming for some > folks, given some of the things that have been posted. There haven't been > a > lot of questions about it though since it got into Phobos, so either a > fair > number of people are understanding it well enough, or they aren't using > it. > All the info that's there is good, but I think the problems, at least as I see it are: - Like others said, it could use a migration guide. It's a fantastic module, but I think one of the biggest use-cases for it right now is migration from std.date and the old deprected funcs in std.file. And since is it so very different, a simple migration guide would be very helpful. Without that, I had a little bit of touble migrating some stuff, too (although I'm sure part of that was just me being lazy and trying to minimize effort to just get it done). - Some of the important "overview" concepts and typical use-cases are spread out a bit much. Of course, they should certainly stay where they are for reference purposes. But it would be a big help if, for instance, what you told Adam about Durations, subtracting/comparing SysTimes, dur!"hours"(8), and olderByAtLeast8Hours were summed up in the overview. Another good thing to put up there would be this fantastic idiom, which I probably wouldn't have even noticed if someone hadn't submitted a bug report to me for Goldie that just happened to use it: Adapted from: http://www.dsource.org/projects/goldie/ticket/18 StopWatch sw; sw.start(); scope(exit) writeln(sw.peek.msecs); And maybe a quick little example of "benchmark" added to the overview. I didn't even realize that existed until I was looking through the whole page. And of course, like you said, something like what Andrei added to the top of the std.algorithm docs would be great, too. > Part of the problem with better explaining std.datetime though is that > it's > pretty much all in the documentation, so it's not generally clear what I > should be explaining further without people asking specific questions. > Yea, that's definitely understandable.
