On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:19:51 -0500, Michel Fortin
<[email protected]> wrote:
For a date system that does support multiple calendars very well, take
look at the Cocoa dates. Cocoa has NSDate which is basically a
timestamp, NSDateComponents which contains a list of components for
calendar dates and time of day, and the NSCalendar class that converts
between the two.
Another good library that's calendar-agnostic is the Joda Time. It has
several chronologies (calendars), like ISO8601, buddhist, coptic,
ethiopic, gregorian, islamic, etc., that can be plugged dynamically. It's
a very comprehensive library.
http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/
However. I don't think is that useful to have support for multiple
calendars. I mean it's a cool thing to have, but honestly, how many
programmers actually use Julian or Coptic calendars? It's a very niche
usage of date and time programming constructs.
--
Yao G.
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