Summary of API?

2003-01-24 Thread Tim Bunce
Would someone do me the great favour of summarizing some things for me? Just the Goals and Design Principles would be great, an outline of the API(s) would be a bonus. I'm particularly interested in: Basic object API (there is going to be an object right?) Extensibility (through

Re: Which DOW is day #1?

2003-01-24 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Peter J. Acklam wrote: I believe this thread proves that what is considered the first day of the week must be customizable. If it isn't, then someone (perhaps not someone on this mailing list, but someone) will be dissatisfied and consider the DateTime modules useless

Re: Which DOW is day #1?

2003-01-24 Thread Clayton L. Scott
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Peter J. Acklam wrote: In relation to week numbers and day of week numbers, there are at least four parameters that must be customizable: 1) What is the first day of a week (Sunday, Monday, ...)? I just need method names

Re: Which DOW is day #1?

2003-01-24 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Clayton L. Scott wrote: So if I want to use Sunday as the first day of the week every will method I use will have sunday in it? What if for some business reason I decide that it's easier to do my calculations if Wednesday is the first day of the week? How about: use

Help me understand time zones

2003-01-24 Thread Dave Rolsky
So I'm hacking away at time zone code and getting darn close to producing something usable, dare I even say elegant? We'll see on both counts, I suppose ;) Anyway, I've been working with the raw Olson DB the last couple days, and I've produced a parser that can read its rules, zones, links and