[REBOL] How to scale Date-Time properly in REBOL?
From: jason:cunliffe:verizon at: 13-Jan-2002 9:00
Hi
I need robust date-time handling, for referencing a wide range of
timestamped data, historical, ancient, modern, up to and including current
internet messaging logfiles etc..
Ideally looking for REBOL implementation of the rich feature set offered by
Marc-André Lemburg's superb mxDateTime module for Python:
http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/
among the problems I have with REBOL's datetime:
>> n: now
== 13-Jan-2002/8:48-5:00
>> n/year
== 2002
>> n/year: 1400
== 1400
>> n
== 13-Jan-1400/8:48-5:00
>> n/year: -1400
== -1400
>> n
== 13-Jan-64136/8:48-5:00
oops!
Is this just a bug, or is there a real prbolem in REBOL adressing historical
data?
How to fix this?
Has anyone already written a more versatile datetime object which can
override the defaults?
Am I going to have to create my own date-time format and bypass rebols?
If so any suggestiosn about how best to do this.. create a new
datatype/protocol?
what do you suggest?
many thanks
./Jason
