On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:01:19PM -0400, "Steven J. Weinberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I misunderstood. OK, will redo it into the module documentation. > > While I'm writing, I'd like to get other people's opinions on something. > > After writing this module, my plan is to write the necessary event modules > to calculate the Jewish Holidays. That's an obvious > "DateTime::Event::JewishHolidays" or something like that. When I reach a > point where the information I help calculate is only useful to Observant > Jews, does the work leave the realm of DateTime and enter a different > namespace, like "Religion::Jewish"? At what point would my modules cease > being relevant to this group? My initial feelings are that after > DateTime::Event::JewishHolidays, I start adding to Religion::Jewish, and > posting the announcements here.
Is there any documentation of what api a DateTime::Event:: module should provide, as http://datetime.perl.org/developer/calendar.html does for DateTime::Calendar:: ? Just wanted to throw some thoughts out...you might want to start off with two different DT::Event:: modules, one for Eretz Yisrael and one for chutz laaretz [1]. And the parshios [2] might very well be a completely separate Calendar. (again, with e"y and ch"l versions.) But then does that make something like daf yomi [3] also a separate calendar?? [1] For purposes of determining holidays, the world is divied into the land of Israel (not any actual current or past borders, but as far as messengers could reach in a timely fashion with news of the declaration of a new month, when the new month was determined by witness of the new moon) and "outside the land", where certain holidays are extended by a day because the start of the month wouldn't have been known in time. [2] The public reading of the five books of the Torah is completed and restarted each year on 22 Tishrei (23 Tishrei in chutz laaretz). The five books are divided into 54 sections called parshios or sidros (singular: parasha or sidra). One or two sections are read on every Saturday that doesn't fall on one of the major holidays. [3] Daf yomi is a schedule for learning the Talmud Bavli, one folio per day. It has fixed 2711 day cycles, the current cycle beginning 9/29/1997. See http://dafyomi.co.il/calendars/calendar.htm Properly speaking, this isn't a calendar (a system describing time units and their interrelationships) but a schedule. But in DateTime terms, it looks more like a calendar than anything else.
