Yes this all makes a lot of sense. I would propose changing the name from business days to weekdays though. Does anyone object wih that?
On 7/30/08, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Denniston (el 2008-07-30 a les 13:12:45 -0500) va dir:: > > > 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? > > Yes, that may be a better term. I guess we didn't choose that because > we aren't native English speakers, and because TimeSeries was already > using the other term. > > > 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. > > I think that what Francesc was trying to say is that taking holidays > into account would be way too difficult to be implemented. Timezones > were just an example of another (unrelated) feature we left out due to > its complexity. > > > On 7/30/08, Francesc Alted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A Wednesday 30 July 2008, Tom Denniston escrigué: > > > > When people are refering to busienss days are you talking about > > > > weekdays or are you saying weekday non-holidays? > > > > > > Plain weekdays. Taking in account holidays for all the world round > > > would be certainly much more complex than timezones, which neither are > > > being considered in this proposal. > > :: > > Ivan Vilata i Balaguer @ Intellectual Monopoly hinders Innovation! @ > http://www.selidor.net/ @ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ @ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iQCVAwUBSJC1HYB9xakSvZSBAQIqGAP9FES0aN1ioJWL9NsBggBCmdxdA0d973nr > 0dP00xdaq9CeGfNa78NOxzphxsL3kiKR4t6eDE1y3DwyhFV9+X9B+w/pFOcZAuRX > fIlkRHOiQn0SODf287LwAsSab2dKgL+HpiJjAa45QFMDNUUmz7KCa2HKrBZSdL5y > rMfxlbKwAwA= > =Vt/d > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > > _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
