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Last I checked, there haven't been any major overhauls to the Gregorian calendar since C was invented. So why aren't we all using the same, fully-debugged date

by dfranke 18y ago

Last I checked, there haven't been any major overhauls to the Gregorian calendar since C was invented. So why aren't we all using the same, fully-debugged date library yet? Edit: Actually, I'm cutting it close :-). The last time we changed the calendar was in 1972, when we settled on integer leap seconds -- the same year that C was invented.

projectileboy 18y ago
Hear, hear. It's strange how often we have to get bitten by date and time bugs. I think people ignore the wisdom of Peter van der Linden in the excellent book "Expert C Programming": "Anyone who thinks programming dates and times is easy probably hasn't done much of it."