Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On this auspicious day of Poshi Poonam (full moon of the month of Pausha) >I would like to announce that I'm working on implementing various >Calendars traditionally used in India for the DateTime API.
[...] >There are modules for lunar and solar astronomical calculations. >Originally I used the existing DateTime::Util::Astro::* modules but they >are really slow and even worse give incorrect results. Whether this is >because of a bug in the modules, in my code or some weird math error (I >know perl has problems with this.) I don't know but the code I have now >(originally based on Jan Meeus's book.) is fast and gives me the correct >results. Can you give a reference to Jan Meeus's book? A simple book search on Amazon didn't turn it up. A Google search for Jan Meeus suggests that maybe it should be Jean Meeus (aka Jan Meeus), and Wikipedia lists a collection of books by JM on spherical and mathematical astronomy - but leaves open the question of which one(s) you used as a basis. Did you compare it with "Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition" (see http://www.calendarists.com/)? >So I was planning on using the following namespaces: The suggested name spaces looked good to me. -- Jonathan Leffler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) STSM, Informix Database Engineering, IBM Information Management Division 4100 Bohannon Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025-1013 Tel: +1 650-926-6921 Tie-Line: 630-6921 "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!"
