[Lazarus] Now function - returning UTC?

Michael Schnell mschnell at lumino.de
Wed Apr 23 11:19:13 CEST 2014


On 04/21/2014 12:49 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Luca Olivetti <luca at wetron.es> wrote:
>> BTW, the name of the unit isn't really meaningful (NowUTC and
>> GetTickCount64, the only 2 functions defined in that unit, don't seem to
>> have any relation with utf8).
> The idea was that one day it would contain utf8 versions of sysutils
> routines too + extra functions which are alternatives to rtl ones but
> not related to text encoding like the 2 you mention.
>

IMHO, these functions would be better located in the FPC RTL, as they 
are more "general" than what the Lazarus library is about.

Same might be true for UTF8 helper functions.

-Michael




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