[Chicken-users] utc-time->seconds and local-time->seconds rationale?

[Michele La Monaca]

Hi,

I am not an expert here, but I find these functions ill-defined.

Both take as input a time-vector which already carries the timezone
information (seconds west of UTC). So a "time->seconds" function just
seems the right thing to me.  Having to specify the local/utc prefix
feels redundant, confusing and error-prone:

(local-time->seconds (seconds->utc-time 0))   -3600.0
(utc-time->seconds   (seconds->local-time 0))  3600.0

Regards,
Michele