Re: Newbie: How should Lispers deal with date/times? Any packages?

Michael Kohout wrote:
I've done some reading and discovered decode-universal-time and get-
usersal-time and understand their encoding, but coming from a Java
background, these functions seem kind of basic.

So I was hoping one of you fine folks might know of a more robust
library. Off the top of my head it would need to be able to take a
datetime and convert it to a string(at this stage, since this is a
prototype i18n isn't necessary), verify that a privided datetime is
valid(so that it will error should someone try to create a date object
for November 31, for example) and do date math.
There is
http://common-lisp.net/project/local-time/
I am still trying to figure it out. I asked a question about it here, but no one replied so far.
Subscribed to its mailing list , but no response there either , but I think thats cause they are having technical problems with the list servers (hearsay).
But I am hopeful since so far i haven't run into any real road block other than not having enough time :)
Whatever functions I have tried (by looking at its test code) so far made sense.

I don't know if it would work in mac env though cause it somehow reads timezone info from the tzdata files (I think) in Linux

-Antony
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