Proposal: Use time rather than old-time in directory

[Edward Kmett]

+1

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On Oct 24, 2011, at 5:47 AM, Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> writes:
>> This proposal is to change directory to use the time package rather than
>> the old-time package. This will hopefully be a significant step towards
>> actually making the transition in general.
> 
> +1
> 
> The present state of affairs annoys me every time I want to deal
> with file modification times.
> 
>> I'm not sure if POSIXTime or UTCTime is the better type to use. Does
>> anyone know?
> 
> I think the library definition ought not to rely on
> platform-specific time representations¹. Apropos the question of
> avoiding information loss, can the library have implementation
> specific work-arounds? Something like on POSIX systems, have
> UTCTime have an extra (secret) field that provides sufficient
> information to turn it back to the system representation.
> 
> [1] and I’m saying this from the point of view of someone who
> uses unix-type systems almost exclusively.
> 
> -- 
> Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
> http://www.chaos.org.uk/~jf/Stuff-I-dont-want.html  (updated 2010-09-14)
> 
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