Re: [Chicken-users] date, string formatting and locale

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:32:37AM -0300, Hugo Arregui wrote:
> I think that is supported, I already wrote an C code to test it:
> 
> "11:30.08, miércoles de noviembre de 2010"

Hm, this could be a bug.  Maybe someone who knows how this is
designed to work could weigh in on this?

> (But sorry, I don't understand what is date(2), C, scheme, in the term?)

I meant the date program in UNIX. The (2) refers to the manpage
section. Sorry for the confusion.

> > I guess it uses the more Schemely syntax from SRFI-19. See the SRFI
> > document for details: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-19/srfi-19.html
> >
> > (search for "string->date")
> >
> 
> Great! it works!.

Good to hear :)

Cheers,
Peter
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