time, calendar, datetime, etc

[John Roth]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.1059931279.4524.python-list at python.org...
> [Tim, explains that the datetime module's date ordinals were
>  deliberately defined to be identical to those used in
>
> > Dershowitz and Reingold's highly regarded "Calendrical Calculations":
> >
> >    http://emr.cs.iit.edu/home/reingold/calendar-book/second-edition/
> ]
>
> [Dennis Lee Bieber]
> >         Pity the book uses LISP (at least, the first edition did)...
> > Even BASIC would be more accessible to most folks <G> (though I would
> > prefer a modern BASIC over G-whiz or older).
>
> I'd prefer Python, myself.  It would be a fun (for a date weenie <wink>)
> project to recode these algorithms Pythonically.  I hope someone does.

Well, where's the hook in the module for someone to add additonal
calendar classes?

John Roth
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