Its a point for debate really. It might be OK to define SatSun weekends as a default, but an API should probably be framed to allow the avoidance of any day of week combination. And that can get to be a tricky API to define.
Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Schofield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I agree that this limits you to 'western' calendars. Do non-western > calendars have the concept of a weeekend? I think there are enough people > using the Gregorian calendar for these methods to be useful. I guess it > depends on the overall policy of whether things that go in commons lang need > to be country neutral. Is that the policy/general practice? > > Don't some of the constants and methods in DateUtils implictly assume a > Gregorian calendar? Are you opposed to including these methods or are you > just throwing the issue out there for debate? > > sean > > > > The main problem is that the concept of weekday/weekend as Mon-Fri and > > Sat-Sun is a 'western' one. There is a significant portion of the world > > that > > uses other measures. > > > > Stephen > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
