RE: Indic calendars

2007-01-03 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > If so, then it might be reasonable to leave only the actual calendar > modules in D::C and place all the other in DateTime::Indic as support > modules. I agree.

RE: Indic calendars

2007-01-03 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > If so, then it might be reasonable to leave only the actual calendar > modules in D::C and place all the other in DateTime::Indic as support > modules. I agree. Dave is a new DateTime::Indic namespace o

RE: Indic calendars

2007-01-03 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: If so, then it might be reasonable to leave only the actual calendar modules in D::C and place all the other in DateTime::Indic as support modules. I agree. Dave is a new DateTime::Indic namespace ok? There's already some bits in DateTime::Util fo

Re: Indic Calendars

2007-01-03 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Jonathan Leffler wrote: Can you give a reference to Jan Meeus's book? The book is "Astronomical Algorithms" 2nd Edition, 1998, Willman-Bell. ISBN: 978-0943396613 A simple book search on Amazon didn't turn it up. Here's the amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Astronom

Re: Indic Calendars

2007-01-03 Thread Jonathan Leffler
Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On this auspicious day of Poshi Poonam (full moon of the month of Pausha) >I would like to announce that I'm working on implementing various >Calendars traditionally used in India for the DateTime API. [...] >There are modules for lunar and solar ast

RE: Indic calendars

2007-01-03 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Jim Bacon wrote: This might be out in left field, but ... Is it conceivable, or possible, that someone might use the modules from the Indic namespace to create other modules in the DateTime::Event namespace? Oh this is a good point. Yes it is quite likely. In fact I can

Re: Indic calendars

2007-01-03 Thread Zefram
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: >Unfortunately the one described there doesn't really match up to anyone >used in real life. Not all that surprising. I found an awful lot of errors in that book on the stuff that I know about. -zefram

Re: Indic calendars

2007-01-03 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Zefram wrote: I didn't realise there were several. Oh there are about 30 atleast. But mostly they are variants on two basic types. I was fascinated by the lunisolar one described in Calendrical Calculations. Unfortunately the one described there doesn't really match

RE: Indic calendars

2007-01-03 Thread Jim Bacon
This might be out in left field, but ... Is it conceivable, or possible, that someone might use the modules from the Indic namespace to create other modules in the DateTime::Event namespace? If so, then it might be reasonable to leave only the actual calendar modules in D::C and place all the othe

Re: Indic calendars

2007-01-03 Thread Zefram
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: >On this auspicious day of Poshi Poonam (full moon of the month of Pausha) >I would like to announce that I'm working on implementing various >Calendars traditionally used in India for the DateTime API. I didn't realise there were several. I was fascinated by the lunisolar

Indic calendars

2007-01-03 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On this auspicious day of Poshi Poonam (full moon of the month of Pausha) I would like to announce that I'm working on implementing various Calendars traditionally used in India for the DateTime API. It's something I've been fitfully working on for a few years now but unlike previous abortive