Hi Yalu, The Fineract developer is the right place so thanks for starting this discussion. Keith Woodlock, are you able to respond more about the calendar library that was chosen - it think it was Joda right? It looks like that only supports 8 calendars - http://www.joda.org/joda-time/cal.html - but Vikram Samvat isn't one of them.
Ed On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Yalu <y...@vajrainteractive.com> wrote: > Dear Dev Community, > > This is my first post to this list and I apologize if the content of this > message is not appropriate. > > I am from Nepal and here the official Calendar System in widespread use is > still exclusively a Hindu calendar system called Vikram Samvat. I am trying > to get Mifos to be usable in Nepal and this is one of the major hurdle that > is impeding adoption. > > I am trying to determine what kind of Calendar Date/Time > architecture/module Mifos X has so as to localize this aspect of the > software faithfully and seamlessly; Whether the module is pluggable so that > we could just plug in Vikram Samvat based calendar system(if it exists) or > any other Calendar system, and we would be good to go. > > Determining or making the architecture pluggable and having a slot to > accommodate different kinds of Calendar/Date/Time system may only be one of > a few related problems in this problem set. On the other side, I am not > even sure if Nepal has a reliable computational Calendar library to plugin > for Vikram Samvat. > > I know there exists an approach that some local developers have been using > to address Calendar solutions for Vikram Samvat. From what I know these > systems are made not with pure algorithmic approach(thus scalable into the > future) but by using pre-calculated data set of dates. These set of dates > range between arbitrary(?) past and future dates. The authority that > publishes the pre calculated dates and the legitimacy of their calculations > may also be questionable. I have done some research on this and I will > share more of my findings soon. > > I would really appreciate any help localizing Mifos X in this manner. It > would be a huge win for Nepali adoption of Mifos X. I will assist in any > ways I can, so please ask questions, share your insights and discuss. > > Thank You immensely for all your hard work. You all are all simply amazing. > > Regards, > > Yalu > -- *Ed Cable* Director of Community Programs, Mifos Initiative edca...@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649 *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>
