On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:48:58 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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.
Gregorian, please. >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. > >Eugene > >P.S. I suspect you don't like the term Christian; does anyone know >another name for the combination of the Julian and Gregorian calendars? >CommonEra? AD? If you are thinking of the official calendar of the country of England (which country no longer exists, AFAIUI) perhaps you want just DateTime::Calendar::England? Though you may not want to go there. To quote myself from a thread on perl-qotw-discuss (http://perl.plover.com/~alias/list.cgi?1:mss:212:200210:opgjgkaekofdkgbkjabf): >No one has even mentioned the year-starting issue yet. When England >switched to Gregorian, they also switched the beginning of the year >from March 25 to Jan 1 (though Scotland already started the year at >Jan 1 beginning 1600). For instance, March 24 1660 is followed by >March 25 1661, and Dec 31 1660 is followed by Jan 1 1660. Other >places and times also had odd year-start dates (March 1, Sept 1, >March 25, major Xtian holidays). ObStoppard: Ros: I don't believe in it anyway. Guil: What? Ros: England. Guil: Just a conspiricay of cartographers, you mean?
