epoch Prime

[Dieter]

(01-06-2018 08:45 PM)salvomic Wrote:  speking of the opportunity to give optional parameters, it would be desirable to have in HPPPL a syntax like this:

Code:

EXPORT epoch(dat=Date,tim=Time, zone=0)

If the user enters two parameters out of three, how should the program know which two are meant? Does epoch(2015.0327, 1) mean that the time is 1:00 or that the timezone is UTC+1 ?

Maybe something like epoch(2015.0327, , 1) could be less ambiguous (if it was possible). But would this be an advantage in terms of intuitive use of the epoch() function?

Dieter