A Wednesday 30 July 2008, Tom Denniston escrigué: > If it's really just weekdays why not call it that instead of using a > term like business days that (quite confusingly) suggests holidays > are handled properly?
Well, we were adopting the name from the TimeSeries package. Perhaps the authors can answer this better than me. > Also, I view the timezone and holiday issues as totally seperate. I > would definately NOT recommend basing holidays on a timezone because > holidays are totally unrelated to timezones. Usually when you deal > with holidays, because they vary by application and country and > change over time, you provide a calendar as an outside input. That > would be very useful if that were allowed, but might make the > implementation rather complex. Yeah, I agree in that timezone and holiday issues as totally separate issues. I only wanted to stress out that the implementation of these things is *complex*, and that this was the reason to not consider them. -- Francesc Alted _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
