Re: Shutting down the Sourceforge project for the DateTime suite

2013-08-16 Thread Rich Bowen
if I objected (I'm the other admin on the SF project) and I said go ahead. -- Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com Shosholoza

Re: Error with the leap year

2012-03-02 Thread Rich Bowen
. That was the subject of days of discussion as to what the right thing to do here was. Leap years are hard. This is what we decided was the right thing to do here. -- Rich Bowen, mobile edition

DateTime::Calendar::Discordian

2010-01-11 Thread Rich Bowen
, since it's where I started before. Thanks. -- Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com

[Fwd: Possible Bug in Date::ICal 1.72]

2005-11-04 Thread Rich Bowen
Anybody know who is currently maintaning this module? I hope it's not me. Original Message Subject: Possible Bug in Date::ICal 1.72 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 21:15:49 -0500 (EST) From: Joshua Baer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rich Bowen: My name is Joshua Baer, and I've

Re: ANNOUNCE: DateTime::Calendar::Discordian 0.9.1

2004-06-12 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: Rich Bowen has agreed to let me handle this module so I've uploaded version 0.9.1 to CPAN. Yeah. Shame that I could never get it working, but, unfortunately, I've had to spend my time on other things of late. :-( -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DateTime::Calendar::Discordian

2004-03-02 Thread Rich Bowen
I have a functional DateTime::Calendar::Discordian that I'd like someone to look at. I realized that, since Discordian ISA DateTime, I don't think that I actually need to implement some of the DateTime required methods, but I'd like to have someone confirm that that's the cause. Lest you think

DateTime::Calendar::Discordian

2004-02-28 Thread Rich Bowen
Long, long ago, in, I think it was, Portland, I said that I was once again interested in working on DateTime::* stuff, and that I would soon have time to do so. Geez, it's been a long time since then. Anyways, I'm working on DateTime::Calendar::Discordian, and I expect I'll need lots of help. I

Re: invitation to DateTime module authors

2003-04-05 Thread Rich Bowen
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: If you're written a DateTime module and you'd like to have it be part of the perl-date-time CVS project, this is in invitation to join. The advantages are: - shared CVS, which means you can edit the website (particularly them module list), dev docs,

Re: Date::ICal

2003-03-16 Thread Rich Bowen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Bowen: I think it would be useful to have a version of Date::ICal that inherited DateTime. Yes, that is the eventual goal. I admit that I have not been paying attention, and I don't really know

Re: Changing time zones?

2003-02-01 Thread Rich Bowen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: What should happen when someone does this: my $dt = ...; $dt-set( time_zone = 'America/Denver' ); and the new time zone is different from the old? There's two ways to do this. One is to keep the UTC

Re: Grand Unified Theory of Date/Time modules

2003-01-28 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Peter J. Acklam wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Bowen) wrote: On Sun, 6 May 2001 03:35:15 +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen said: Have you seen the TAI64* formats at URL:http://cr.yp.to/time.html? (I am supposedly writing Time::TAI64.) Hmm. attosecond accuracy? What

Re: Grand Unified Theory of Date/Time modules

2003-01-28 Thread Rich Bowen
since then, and we've made a lot of progress since then. The note that you're commenting on represents the *beginning* of the discussion, and addresses points that have been rehashed numerous times. Returning to the beginning does not serve our purposes a whole lot. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Bowen

Re: Grand Unified Theory of Date/Time modules

2003-01-28 Thread Rich Bowen
that it *won't*. It will. It does. This issue has been discussed to death. We want fine granularity. Fine. Nobody has suggested otherwise. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and another brother out of his mind, and another brother out at New York (not the same, though it might appear so

Re: Grand Unified Theory of Date/Time modules

2003-01-28 Thread Rich Bowen
in an earlier note (Julian date, plus another number for time) and which we subsequently implemented in Date::ICal. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and another brother out of his mind, and another brother out at New York (not the same, though it might appear so) Somebody's Luggage

Re: Grand Unified Theory of Date/Time modules

2003-01-28 Thread Rich Bowen
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Peter J. Acklam wrote: Rich Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Peter J. Acklam wrote: [I know this is a very old posting, but I just can't resist commenting it since it is about the base time format.] It seems a little irrelevant, and perhaps

Tests failing

2003-01-19 Thread Rich Bowen
I presume this is actually intentional: t/03componentsok 19/44Can't locate object method ical via package DateTime at t/03components.t line 36. If so, could you please remove the tests that require this method, so that we can have a passing test suite. Along that same line: Warning: the

Re: Tests failing

2003-01-19 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Rich Bowen wrote: I presume this is actually intentional: t/03componentsok 19/44Can't locate object method ical via package DateTime at t/03components.t line 36. If so, could you please remove the tests that require

Re: New edition of Calendrical Calculations (fwd)

2003-01-17 Thread Rich Bowen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Rich Bowen wrote: All points noted and agreed. However, it still makes sense to ask nicely. I have no interest in making enemies of these gentlemen if it is not necessary. Followup

Re: New edition of Calendrical Calculations (fwd)

2003-01-17 Thread Rich Bowen
, because if they say no, then what do we do? But it seemed like the right thing to do. - -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kenya.rcbowen.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE+KF/OXP03

Re: Calendrical Calculations and licensing

2003-01-15 Thread Rich Bowen
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, srl wrote: Rich Bowen emailed them at one point and got an agreement from them that he could implement the algorithms and release the code freely, as long as he let them publish the code in the next version of the book. Last I

Re: Picking up the ball

2003-01-13 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Jean Forget wrote: Well, it is not *that* simple. In addition to creating a new calendar, Fabre d'Eglantine and Romme changed the duration of the hour, minute and second, so each day would be split into 10 hours, each hour into 100 minutes and each minute into 100

Re: Which DOW is day #1?

2003-01-13 Thread Rich Bowen
an interface that regular people can understand, and not have to add and subtract to make sense of it. Like adding 1900 to years. :-) -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kenya.rcbowen.com/

Re: DateTime Namespace (Was Re: Base object API/semantics)

2003-01-13 Thread Rich Bowen
, the same sort of thing, with an offset, but rata_die has the advantage of being what is used in many of the existing algorithms. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kenya.rcbowen.com/

Re: Internals (Re: Date::ICal's pseudo-mjd)

2003-01-13 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Rich Bowen wrote: So the internals would become ... what exactly? Right now, there are two integers stored - the julian day, which is not actually the julian day, and the seconds, which is seconds since midnight (although I tend

Re: Picking up the ball...or reinventing the wheel?

2003-01-12 Thread Rich Bowen
. In fact, it's one of the things I talked about in one of the first posts to this mailing list. And I would still like to do that. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and another brother out of his mind, and another brother out at New York (not the same, though it might appear so) Somebody's

Re: Date::ICal's pseudo-mjd versus real MJD - Rich?

2003-01-11 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: No, this has nothing to do with Mr. Dominus. Rich, can you explain the pseudo-mjd system that Date::ICal uses for its internals? And why didn't you you use real MJD? It is MJD + an offset (or - an offset, as the case may be). It makes the calculations

Re: Base object API/semantics

2003-01-11 Thread Rich Bowen
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: Can we simply declare 0-based as the standard for day of week and day of year, and 1-based for day of month, month of year, and week of year. FWIW, that's what Date::ICal already had implemented, I believe. The reasoning here, although I don't know that

Re: Date::ICal's pseudo-mjd versus real MJD - Rich?

2003-01-11 Thread Rich Bowen
, that is the conclusion that we came to. Indeed, we changed the internals at least twice, with no change to the API. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kenya.rcbowen.com/

Re: Picking up the ball

2003-01-10 Thread Rich Bowen
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: -- DateTime::Algorithm::Leapyear -- DateTime::Algorithm::Passover Isn't that DateTime::Event::Passover? Doh, I'm confusing myself. I think maybe DateTime::Algorithm and DateTime::Event have _way_ too much overlap. I also realized that some

Re: A quick note on licensing

2003-01-10 Thread Rich Bowen
license as Perl. I thought that it was stated. I'll make a new release with this clearly stated. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReefKnot - http://www.reefknot.org

Acme::Time::Asparagus

2002-04-22 Thread Rich Bowen
I am pleased to announce the release of Acme::Time::Asparagus which ... um ... well ... I guess it's best to look at the README: === Acme::Time::Asparagus We have a clock in our kitchen that has vegetables rather than numbers. You can see a picture of it at

Re: Seeking ways to put order to the Perl date chaos

2002-03-11 Thread Rich Bowen
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Antonios Christofides wrote: Hi everyone. I read a part of the archive of this list sometime ago, having reached this list after desperately searching for a decent date module and writing to Usenet as well. IIRC the founders of this list have said that the list aims,

Re: Version numbers in cpan index databases inconsistent with Date::ICal

2002-01-18 Thread Rich Bowen
on getting v-string support for $VERSION in shape, *maybe* we can support these beasts fully some day. -- andreas -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] As we trace our own few circles around the sun We get it backwards and our seven years go by like one Dog Years (Rush - Test for Echo

Re: [RFC] Date::MySQL

2001-11-25 Thread Rich Bowen
On 25 Nov 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Bowen) writes: rbowen@rhiannon:~% perl -MDate::ISO -le 'my $d=Date::ISO-new( epoch = time ); print $d-iso;' 2001-W44-6 Unfortunately, the default ISO date format is this year-week-day format. At least that's what I

Re: Date::ICal patches

2001-11-24 Thread Rich Bowen
Rich Bowen wrote: Just to let you know that I am not ignoring you. I have been out of town all week, and am checking my email just the second time this week now. I'll try to get a release out soon. Like tomorrow perhaps. And, of course, this was supposed to go to the Reefknot mailing list

New Date::Discordian, Date::ICal

2001-11-24 Thread Rich Bowen
, but it is the real driving force behind all the real development that I get done. :-) Get Date::Discordian 1.35, and Date::ICal 1.54 from your local CPAN mirror, and find out what Eristic forces were really behind your favorite, seemingly unexplained, historic events. -- Rich Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Date::ICal patches

2001-11-17 Thread Rich Bowen
Just to let you know that I am not ignoring you. I have been out of town all week, and am checking my email just the second time this week now. I'll try to get a release out soon. Like tomorrow perhaps. -- Who can say where the road goes Where the day flows Only time --Pilgrim (Enya - A Day

Re: [RFC] Date::MySQL

2001-11-07 Thread Rich Bowen
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Jonathan Leffler wrote: In ISO 8601:1986, the basic format for the complete representation of a date is 19991231 and the extended format for a date is 1999-12-31 (see section 5.2.1 Calendar Date and in particular 5.2.1.1 Complete Representation). There is discussion

Re: [RFC] Date::MySQL

2001-11-04 Thread Rich Bowen
of things to work on when that is out of the way. It's on my todo list in my Palm. ?? Nick ~~~ Nick Tonkin On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Ilmari Karonen wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Nick Tonkin wrote: Nevertheless, in order to smooth

Re: New OO interface to handle time

2001-09-13 Thread Rich Bowen
of these in existing modules? I'd rather see us extend something that is already out there than add something else to the witches' brew. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and another brother out of his mind, and another brother out at New York (not the same, though it might appear so) Somebody's

Namespace changes

2001-08-12 Thread Rich Bowen
than one person is Date::ICal and perhaps Date::Leapyear. What have others of you done when you've changed the name of a module? -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author - Apache Server Unleashed - http://www.apacheunleashed.com/

Re: Namespace issues

2001-08-07 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Kirrily Robert wrote: There are also a variety of things that purport to be the One True Module that should be the base class for all Date:: and Time:: modules. There are at least 4 of these that I know of. And I wrote one of them. All of them have shortcomings. These

CALNDR-L

2001-08-05 Thread Rich Bowen
For those who are interested in calendars in general, not just specifically relating to Perl, you may be interested in CALNDR-L, which is presumably the definitive calendar mailing list. http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/calndr-l.html -- And everyone said, If we only live, We too will go to sea

New edition of Calendrical Calculations (fwd)

2001-07-29 Thread Rich Bowen
FYI - for those of you who are not already on Reingold and Dershowitz's mailing list, you might be interested in this information. -- HTML Writers Guild training classes http://www.hwg.org/services/classes/ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:23:07 -0500 (CDT)

[ANNOUNCE] Date::Easter

2001-07-12 Thread Rich Bowen
There's a new version of Date::Easter on CPAN that has better tests, and cleaner code. And somewhat better documentation. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author - Apache Server Unleashed - http://www.apacheunleashed.com/

Date::Handler

2001-06-30 Thread Rich Bowen
If you have not seen it yet, you should check out Date::Handler It looks pretty slick. Could we *please* get all these date and time authors to work together on some stuff? -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReefKnot - http://www.reefknot.org

Re: Date::Leapyear

2001-06-26 Thread Rich Bowen
On 3 Jun 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: I got tired of putting a leap year function in every Date:: module I'm working on, and did not want to load something as huge as Date::Manip to get this functionality, so you should now have Date::Leapyear on your favorite CPAN mirror. Date::Leapyear exports

Re: Date::ICal, epoch time, and cross-platform issues

2001-06-03 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:16:09 -0400 (EDT), srl said: So, I notice that in the new Date::ICal module, the new() function behaves like so: $t = new Date::ICal (epoch = 123456); # epoch seconds # OR $t = new Date::ICal (ical = '20010304T103000Z'); # an iCalendar date I know that

Re: Doomsday

2001-05-28 Thread Rich Bowen
. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReefKnot - http://www.reefknot.org