Re: DateTime Namespace (Was Re: Base object API/semantics)

2003-01-13 Thread Rich Bowen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: > > > > > from/to_julian (or rata_die, I think), definitely, since without that it's > > > not interoperable with anything e

Re: DateTime Namespace (Was Re: Base object API/semantics)

2003-01-13 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: > from/to_julian (or rata_die, I think), definitely, since without that it's > not interoperable with anything else. The more I read Calendrical Calculations, the more I like the rata_die concept, rather than the julian day concept. They are, of course, the

Re: DateTime Namespace (Was Re: Base object API/semantics)

2003-01-13 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Matthew Simon Cavalletto wrote: > But in fact the Discordian calendar is a lot like the Gregorian > calendar -- they have years, months ("seasons"), and days. Likewise the > Hebrew calendar, and the Mayan. (The overlapping Tzolkin and Haab > cycles in the Mayan calendar are re

DateTime Namespace (Was Re: Base object API/semantics)

2003-01-12 Thread Matthew Simon Cavalletto
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 05:55 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, David Wheeler wrote: The advantage is that the interface is exactly the same regardless of calendaring system, and we deal with the issues of allowing DateTime to return different calendar types right now, up fr