• Martin (12/12) May 19 2021 Hi,
• =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= (15/17) May 19 2021 I wouldn't expect those modules to publicly import unix time function.

Martin <martin.brzenska googlemail.com> writes:

Hi,

shouldn't the unix time functions be in std.datetime.Date and 
std.datetime.DateTime instead of std.datetime.SysTime?

The documentation states:
- "std.datetime.systime for a point in time with a timezone."
- "std.datetime.date for points in time without timezones."

Unix epoch is 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 - and UTC is a 
standard, not a timezone.
if i am not mistaken timezones getting applied on UTC - so i do 
not understand why the unix time functions are in the modules 
which are "timezone aware" and not in the modules without a 
timezone awareness.

=?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On 5/19/21 12:18 PM, Martin wrote:

 shouldn't the unix time functions be in std.datetime.Date and
 std.datetime.DateTime instead of std.datetime.SysTime?

I wouldn't expect those modules to publicly import unix time function. 
Such functions are found under the core.sys package:

import std.stdio;
import core.sys.linux.time;

// This is publicly imported by core.sys.linux.time:
// import core.sys.posix.time;

void main() {
   time_t t;
   writeln(time(&t));
   writeln(t);
}

The problem is, the location for these functions are not well 
documented. So, I simply grep under /usr/include/dmd and it usually works.

Ali