On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote: > > > > Also, I would vote for a method to return the Julian date (yes I am an > > > > astronomer...) :-) > > > > But surely not as a part of the core language? > > Exactly. In fact, I'm going to chop a lot of the original proposal out. > It's too bloated for core. > > There's a lot of cool time/date stuff, but there's plenty of chance for > external modules for that (including backwards localtime() > compatibility). > > -Nate > Agreed. It was getting a bit out of hand (although in principal Julian date could be the internal format :-) ). What is the reason why any of this has to be in the core? Could all the date/time stuff be moved into a standard module? Is localtime() used often enough to justify being part of the language? -- Tim Jenness JCMT software engineer/Support scientist http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
