Re: date arithmetic?

[Romulo Bahiense <romulo@...>]

> I think os.time() is the way to go. The only thing missing is a universal date
> parser that coverts dates into the os.time() epoch form.

	Perhaps a way to encode/decode dates/times without a table would be 
nice too.

Example:

somedate = os.mktime(2005,08,24,10,20,30)

print(os.date('%c', somedate))
> 08/24/2005 10:20:30

print(os.unpacktime(somedate))
> 2005	08	24	10	20	30


	Having to create a table is expensive sometimes.

Just my $.02 :)

--rb