Le 6 septembre 2011 17:37, Rothenmaier, Deane C. <
[email protected]> a écrit :

> Well, chacun à son goût, and all that...
>
> Anyway, I agree that using ready-made solutions is often the best route,
> but sometimes it's a fun exercise to cobble one's own solution, which is
> what I did with JDNs in the app I maintain. Also, sometimes it's quicker to
> gin up code for an algorithm than to search through oodles of libraries
> trying to find "just the right one."
>

The problem is not just to find the good algorithm: it is in fact much
harder to find a good testsuite to validate an implementation, as algorithms
are too often "as is".

I've been able to hijack the Date::ISO8601 test suite (thanks Zefram), to
check better that Time::JulianDay works as advertised. I love Perl and the
CPAN!
https://gist.github.com/1198087

Olivier.

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