Re: [Chicken-users] date, string formatting and locale

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 10:29:14AM -0300, Hugo Arregui wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm facing some troubles getting a formatted string from a date.
> 
> 1) Using posix:
> 
> (use posix)
> (time->string (string->time "2" "%d"))
> "Tue Jan  2 00:00:00 1900"
> 
> but, my current locale es:
> 
> (use locale)
> (current-locale)
> "es_AR.utf8"

hmmm, I think time->string uses strftime(), so it depends on
whether your OS supports this.  Can you verify that?  (ie, what's
the output of date(2)?)

> 2) Trying srfi-19:
> 
> srfi-19-io has a format-date, but what kind of format is using?

I guess it uses the more Schemely syntax from SRFI-19. See the SRFI
document for details: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-19/srfi-19.html

(search for "string->date")

Cheers,
Peter
-- 
http://sjamaan.ath.cx
--
"The process of preparing programs for a digital computer
 is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically
 and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic
 experience much like composing poetry or music."
                                                        -- Donald Knuth