On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:

> It seems you're right; at least, most references on the internet agree.
> And as we all know, the internet can't be wrong.

The only thing more reliable than the net is The Weekly World News.

> But this leads to this question: should DateTime use the Gregorian
> calendar before 1754 as it does now, or the Julian date? I can think of
> arguments for both.

I'm going to have DateTime stick to the "hypothetically infinite in either
direction" Gregorian calendar, since that's just the easiest to use.

> If the first, I would like to see (and if necessary, write) a module
> DateTime::Calendar::Christian::English, which uses the Julian calendar
> until 1754. And 49+ other modules, each corresponding to a J-G switch.

That sounds fine to me.


-dave

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