On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 5:08 AM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

I think we should deprecate ‘strftime’ and ‘strptime’: (srfi srfi-19)
provides similar functionality, it uses (ice-9 i18n) for the locale
stuff, and it has a better API.

Just a heads-up. I don't consider SRFI 19 to have a very good API, and I'm working on a pre-SRFI for dates and times. There is an outline of it (very subject to change) at <https://bitbucket.org/cowan/r7rs-wg1-infra/src/default/TimeAdvancedCowan.md>. Note that it does not do localization except for timezones, however, so is probably not directly relevant. I'd appreciate review comments at cowan@ccil.org anyway. Thanks.

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