Re: [Chicken-users] (current-seconds) returning negative values

[Felix Winkelmann]

Am Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:39:44 +0100 hat Joerg F. Wittenberger 
<address@hidden> geschrieben:

> > Would that be more satisfactory?
>
> I think this move is basically the only way.  But please Felix --
> knowing your ressentiments towards SRFI 19, I'm nevertheless depending
> on any documented and consistent way to express time&date in Askemos
> -- at least don't break SRFI 19 compatibility.

I have no ressentiments towards SRFI-19. Only, the last time I looked, the
ref.impl. was horribly buggy and implementation-specific.

> This makes me wondering, why my (modified wrt i18n, optional arguments
> instead of global parameters) SRFI 19 implementation is not available
> as egg or whatever.

Joerg, if you provide documentation, I will be *very* happy to provide
about everything as an egg.

> This would require minor polishing, which I can't
> do any time soon.  Whoever want to take care, find the code at
> http://www.askemos.org:9080/srfi19-chicken.tar.gz (for a while, to be
> removed at occasion).  BTW: I'm using SRFI 9 records for the time
> types.

I'll take a look. Thanks for providing the code.


cheers,
felix