On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Rich Bowen wrote: > It's an interesting point in this case, with this being one of the very > few calendars that changes how time is handled. However, since the > purpose of the module in question is conversion between Gregorian and > French Revolutionary, I would expect that it would do just that. The > base module would have "Gregorian" or "Anglo-Babylonial" time, and the > module would convert back and forth. Or it could simply choose to ignore > that portion of things, as you have done now.
Conceivably, a calendar module might simply always return 0 for time-related pieces of dates, and not even store Rata Die seconds, but that's less than ideal, since the round-trip from Gregorian => X => Gregorian would result in a loss of information, which is bad. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/