Subj : posix strftime
To   : tony summerfelt
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Wed Mar 09 2005 08:22 am

Hey tony!

Mar 09 10:39 05, tony summerfelt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 ts> strftime has plenty of options %R would also work...

I missed that.  I'll have to check it out.  %R is portable?

 ts> it's too bad that perl doesn't have one inclusive module for strftime 
 ts> handling.

Is that a Perl problem or a Activestate thingy?  As far as I am aware the 
module is a standard feature with the regular Perl.  Currently I am using 5.8.6 
with a few addons centered around enabling XML-RPC functionality.  I am still 
playing with this idea but I think I'll probably recompile Perl for other 
machines and make those modules part and parcel of the package.  Seems like a 
good idea at this point in time but we want to play some more with it.  We have 
some other ideas for it besides Fido but I think it is fun concentrating on 
Fido and seeing how we can bring this network up to speed without altering the 
actual network and letting sleeping dogs lie with all their abandonware they 
seem to love so much.  :-)

 ts> ruby's time module is very kitchen sink oriented :)

I have yet to check ruby out.  I am not much of an OO guy.  I think I got to 
used to having to do everything from scratch or having the "right" includes 
handy.  Methinks that is what happens when the options are so limited by the 
machinery (PC's) and the OS.  Unfortunetly there was no Linux back then and I 
had been tainted by VAX/VMS-think.  Tough to shake old habits even after all 
this time.  Having said that, I probably will at least check it out as I am a 
real sucker for things like that.

Life is good,
Maurice

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