Re: ESQL/C and date/datetimes

Arun Shastry wrote: > I hope Informix is planning on providing more functions/features in > their next ESQL/C release with regards to date/datetime fields > manipulation. > What they currently have in 7.2 is totally inadequate and buggy. Inadequate, maybe. Buggy? Justify this assertion! > I've worked with Oracle's and Sybase's embedded langauges and they > have significantly more help in this area. > > Well, as usual, I have been kinda forced to come up with my own set > of date/datetime manipulation API's. > > Just thought I'd gripe a li'll. Well, now you've griped a bit, how about some constructive criticism. Which particular operations did you find so defective? What did you implement to get around them? Which functionality is missing? Can you make your solution available to the rest of the world so we all benefit from your expertise? Yours, Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@visa.com) #include <many-aliases.h>