Comment author: administrator

see also #3851

Comment author: newacct

Yeah even the C90 standard library has asctime() and ctime(); why doesn't OCaml? Although you can convert between time and struct tm types, there is no way to get any of those into a string to display in OCaml, which is really silly.

Comment author: warwick

It'd be good to even have a basic time-to-string function such as asctime (though strftime/strptime would be ideal). These functions would be a handy addition to the Unix module.

Alternatively it could be good to add to the Printf module so that it can display floating point numbers (seconds since 1 Jan 1970) as date/times. This would be similar to Java, and quite useful:
%tY => year
%tm => month
%td => day
%tF => ISO 8601 date
etc

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