Parsing date and time specifications

[Ketil Z. Malde]

Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to> writes:

> CalendarTime [...]
> TimeDiff [...]
> I briefly looked at the Posix module  [...]
> non-standard. *sigh* [...]

> Any suggestions what I could do?

Yes. 

I think it is widely agreed that the time and date structures in the
standard libraries are brok^H^H^H^Hslightly less than useful.

I suggest you feel free to rewrite it as you see fit, and then lobby
for its inclusion in the hierarchical libraries. 

(My preju^H^Hference would be to store a date-time internally in a
posix-like manner (seconds,microsecond since the epoch).)

-kzm
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