Re: DateTime languages

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Eric Cholet wrote: I want to use the DateTime language stuff, mainly so that I can use DateTime's strftime instead of my own cooked up one, but I find it difficult to integrate with my applications because of the non standard English language names it uses, instead of

Announce Astro::Sunrise 0.7

2003-02-14 Thread Hill, Ronald
Hi All, This is to announce a new version of Astro::Sunrise. I fixed the issue with the build I added the PREREQ_PM to the Makefile.PL. I also added a new function Iteration. This feature is very alpha!! Thanks Ron Hill NAME Astro::Sunrise - Perl extension for computing the

Re: There _is_ a (Gregorian) year 0

2003-02-14 Thread Martin Hasch
Eugene, On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:48:58PM +0100, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: Dave Rolsky schreef: That's what Calendrical Calculations says. I'm wrong, they're right. It'll be fixed in the next release ;) It seems you're right; at least, most references on the internet agree. And as

Re: There _is_ a (Gregorian) year 0

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: It seems you're right; at least, most references on the internet agree. And as we all know, the internet can't be wrong. The only thing more reliable than the net is The Weekly World News. But this leads to this question: should DateTime use

Re: There _is_ a (Gregorian) year 0

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Lawrence K. Hixson wrote: Astronomers (and their astronomical almanacs) recognize year zero (0 B.C.) as valid while Historians use 1 B.C. for zero since there was no zero (0) in the Roman counting numbers (Julian Calendar!) therefore the day before 0001-01-01 AD is

Re: DateTime in XS

2003-02-14 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
I've started reimplementing some of the core math in XS. If people want to review the C code and tell me how it sucks, that'd be cool ;) Are you planning on requiring XS for DT or also maintaining a pure Perl implementation? -J

Re: DateTime in XS

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: I've started reimplementing some of the core math in XS. If people want to review the C code and tell me how it sucks, that'd be cool ;) Are you planning on requiring XS for DT or also maintaining a pure Perl implementation? Good question. I

Re: DateTime, the year 0, and ISO8601

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Matthew Simon Cavalletto wrote: However, using classes enables inheritance and other useful programming techniques, and there's a lot to be said for that. Good point. Hmm. It seems like we can get the best of both worlds if we simply allow these functions to be called