time, calendar, datetime, etc

[John Roth]

"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:h9euv-4l3.ln1 at beastie.ix.netcom.com...
> Tim Peters fed this fish to the penguins on Friday 01 August 2003 07:30
> pm:
>
> > Gregorian calendar in Dershowitz and Reingold's highly regarded
> > "Calendrical Calculations":
> >
> >     http://emr.cs.iit.edu/home/reingold/calendar-book/second-edition/
> >
> > So people who want umpteen kinds of calendars Guido doesn't care about
> > can look up algorithms in that book to do conversion to and from
> > datetime's view
>
>         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).

That's the version I have (somewhere.) As I've said a couple of times,
it's not the lack of built-in support for all kinds of strange calendars
that's
the problem: it's the decision to limit the time span to 1AD.

John Roth
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