• Steve Teale (3/3) Mar 15 2009 What is the recommended way of populating a std.date Date struct from a ...
• Walter Bright (4/12) Mar 15 2009 There isn't a function to do it directly, but you can use

Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> writes:

What is the recommended way of populating a std.date Date struct from a d_time
value returned by getUTCtime()?

I'm probably being very dense, but it seems to me that at present I have to
convert the d_time value to a formatted date string, and then parse that. This
seems very inefficient.

Also, Date has a weekday member, but no year day, and year days are quite
widely used.

Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:

Steve Teale wrote:
 What is the recommended way of populating a std.date Date struct from
 a d_time value returned by getUTCtime()?
 
 I'm probably being very dense, but it seems to me that at present I
 have to convert the d_time value to a formatted date string, and then
 parse that. This seems very inefficient.

There isn't a function to do it directly, but you can use 
YearFromTime(t), MonthFromTime(t), etc.


 Also, Date has a weekday member, but no year day, and year days are
 quite widely used.

Day(t) - DayFromYear(YearFromTime(t))