epoch Prime

[salvomic]

(01-06-2018 08:59 PM)Dieter Wrote:  ...
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

I don't know if it would be an advantage, but yes, I meant this syntax: epoch(,,2) to say "current date and time and timezone +2".

As that syntax there isn't still, maybe we should use a list to simulate it...

EDIT:
or we simply could ignore that problem and only say to the user (for now with comments, but for problems like that I do hope a real *user help* system for HPPPL programs!) that it can use this simple syntax, using the system variables Date and Time...

Code:

epoch(Date, Time, timezone)

to get current date and time, and to choose only his time zone.
In this link there is the simplified version of the program.

What do you think about?

Salvo