I noticed recently that time is all screwed up in an application of
mine. Figures, I knew it was a tarpit, and didn't pay much attention
(my app not being especially time-intensive).
My first thought was Erik Naggum's Long, Painful History of Time.
Then, I figured that by now someone must have a good solution.
Googling around a bit, now I'm not so sure. Dan Barlow didn't get a
great response to this post:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=87wue82mkz.fsf%40noetbook.telent.net
I guess I'll ask the same question he did: what do you use? Maybe
nobody but Erik uses a system good enough that they're willing to talk
about it. Anyone know if he ever released his code?
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+ ···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick):
| My first thought was Erik Naggum's Long, Painful History of Time.
| [...] Anyone know if he ever released his code?
Why don't you ask him? He's alive and, I presume, well. (I almost
asked him myself once or twice, but didn't have sufficient need to
justify bothering him with it.)
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Harald Hanche-Olsen <······@math.ntnu.no> writes:
> + ···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick):
>
> | My first thought was Erik Naggum's Long, Painful History of Time.
> | [...] Anyone know if he ever released his code?
>
> Why don't you ask him? He's alive and, I presume, well. (I almost
> asked him myself once or twice, but didn't have sufficient need to
> justify bothering him with it.)
I asked myself the same thing 30 seconds later, and did, actually.
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On Wed, 4 May 2004, Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
> Harald Hanche-Olsen <······@math.ntnu.no> writes:
>
> > + ···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick):
> >
> > | My first thought was Erik Naggum's Long, Painful History of Time.
> > | [...] Anyone know if he ever released his code?
> >
> > Why don't you ask him? He's alive and, I presume, well. (I almost
> > asked him myself once or twice, but didn't have sufficient need to
> > justify bothering him with it.)
>
> I asked myself the same thing 30 seconds later, and did, actually.
What was the response?
CLSQL (http://clsql.b9.com) has inherited a package from UncommonSQL for
dealing with dates and times which was developed by the folks (formerly)
at Onshored and based, I believe, on Erik Naggums paper. The code, which
works as a standalone file, is available here:
http://svn.b9.com/svn/clsql/base/time.lisp
At some point, it might be worth tidying the code up, asdf packaging it
and setting it up as an independent project (e.g., on common-lisp.net).
Cheers,
Marcus
Marcus Pearce <·····@soi.city.ac.uk> writes:
> CLSQL (http://clsql.b9.com) has inherited a package from UncommonSQL for
> dealing with dates and times which was developed by the folks (formerly)
> at Onshored and based, I believe, on Erik Naggums paper. The code, which
> works as a standalone file, is available here:
I think you should do some hard research on Google Groups
investigating the purported implementation of Erik's LOCAL-TIME
interface in UncommonSQL.
Carl Shapiro <·············@panix.com> writes:
> Marcus Pearce <·····@soi.city.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> CLSQL (http://clsql.b9.com) has inherited a package from UncommonSQL for
>> dealing with dates and times which was developed by the folks (formerly)
>> at Onshored and based, I believe, on Erik Naggums paper. The code, which
>> works as a standalone file, is available here:
>
> I think you should do some hard research on Google Groups
> investigating the purported implementation of Erik's LOCAL-TIME
> interface in UncommonSQL.
It looks to me from the history that, irrespective of Erik's feelings
about the quality or otherwise of the onShored "gammelost-time"
implementation, it was nevertheless based on Erik's paper, by the
history discussed in the thread starting with
<·················@eurocom.od.ua>
Was this the research you were alluding to, or was there something
else?
Christophe
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Hello Christophe,
"Christophe Rhodes" <·····@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
CR> >> CLSQL (http://clsql.b9.com) has inherited a package from
CR> >> UncommonSQL for dealing with dates and times which was developed
CR> >> by the folks (formerly) at Onshored and based, I believe, on
CR> >> Erik Naggums paper. The code, which works as a standalone file,
CR> >> is available here:
CR>
CR> It looks to me from the history that, irrespective of Erik's
CR> feelings about the quality or otherwise of the onShored
CR> "gammelost-time" implementation, it was nevertheless based on
CR> Erik's paper, by the history discussed in the thread starting with
CR> <·················@eurocom.od.ua>
I did agree with Erik about its quality and spawned a project of my own more
than a year ago. The rewrite and add-ins are available as a part of YstokSQL at:
http://lisp.ystok.ru/ysql.html
Questions and comments are welcome.
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Dmitri Ivanov
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