back to the list, where it belongs ...

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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:06:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Daisuke Maki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Chinese Calendar Question

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Daisuke Maki wrote:

>
> As you might know I've been working on DateTime::Calendar::Chinese, but
>   right now I'm kind of stuck on the interface, because of two reasons:
>
>   1) the Astro stuff. Just where to put it??
>   2) The year nocation in CC uses sexagecimal cycles -- I'm not
>      familiar with this -- do Chinese people really use it?
>
> Also, I'm fairly sure that Japanese calendars don't use sexagecimal
> cycles. They usually use 'eras' to distinguish a certain period of time.
> That also makes inheritance a bit of a problem.
>
> I know you've at least thought about implementing a Chinese calendar --
> have you thought about this stuff? Do you have any recommendations?

Doh, this all should stay on list though.


-dave

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