Re: new Date extenstion

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:58:21 +0100 > "Edin Kadribasic" <edink@proventum.net> wrote: > > > Does the extension take into acount calendar changes like: > > > > $ cal 9 1752 > > September 1752 > > Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa > > 1 2 14 15 16 > > 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 > > 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 > > oops, wrong shortcut :) > > Actually no, date corrections will be part of the date functions as soon > as the locale part is done. The changes of calendar was not the same in > each country, not in the same time, and even not in the same country (I > like scottland, switzerland or others proud people ;-), there are > ambiguous common days offset, some use it, some not. > > That is one of the things we should discuss, and document our choice as > well. > > What do you think ? It would probably be easier to take one cutoff point like the unix cal command. From its manpage: The Gregorian Reformation is assumed to have occurred in 1752 on the 3rd of September. By this time, most countries had recognized the reforma- tion (although a few did not recognize it until the early 1900's.) Ten days following that date were eliminated by the reformation, so the cal- endar for that month is a bit unusual. Edin