calendar lameness!

[David LeBlanc]

For less constrained calendrical calculations, I found this:
http://www.funaba.org/en/calendar.html
with a python binding no less!

I also discovered that "calendar" "calendar software" and "calendar software
library" will get you little of practical use, but the elegant term
"calendrical calculations" does well :-)

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-admin at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Andreas Kostyrka
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 13:51
> To: Terry Hancock
> Cc: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: calendar lameness!
>
>
> Am Mon, 2002-07-22 um 15.35 schrieb Terry Hancock:
> > "calendar" is pretty neat -- except it has pretty
> > annoying arbitrary limits on the date:
> >
> > 1900-1/1 to 2038-1/18
> Well, this is not that arbitrary. Considering the fact that the
> "calendar" wasn't standardized completly the beginning of the 20th
> century. So anything that goes that far back would have to specify the
> country (or even the substate in the country) to be precise. And that
> doesn't even take into account that the French Revolution tried to do
> away with the 7-days week, ...
>
> > I can see that this is adequate for a business
> > planner, but for historical or astronomical uses,
> > it's really inadequate.  (e.g. "What day of the
> > week was the US Declaration of Independence signed
> > on?"  I'm sure I could look that up, but gee it
> > would've been nice to just type:
> >
> > calendar.weekday(1776, 7, 4)
> calendar.weekday(1776,7,4,"USA")
>
> > Actually, it looks like maybe it's "mktime" that
> > is the limiter here (?).  How hard would it be to
> > replace that call with something smarter?  It seems
> > like Python longs would make it unnecessary to
> > have such arbitrary limits.
> Well, it's not that much a limit of calculating power, it's more that
> the subject of calendars is difficult. By using the underlying C library
> implementation the Python implementers don't have to think about these
> political and religious considerations. ;)
>
> Andreas
>
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