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
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
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
Dave Rolsky wrote:
[...]
Make that:
$month[ $date-month_0 ] vs. $date-month_name
$date-month returns a 1-based numbers
$date-month_0 a 0-based named
$date-month_name returns a name based on the DateTime::Language module
the $date object is holding onto.
While I like returning 1 based numbers
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Nick Tonkin wrote:
You completely misunderstood my point, Rich. I was not implying any slight
whatsoever. I continue to disagree with your opinion about the first day
of the week in the Christian tenet(s), about which I know a good deal more
than you evidently think.
I
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 09:13:07AM -0500, John Peacock wrote:
Dave Rolsky wrote:
I'm inclined to go with ISO rather than backwards compatibility with C.
We really have to go with ISO because that battle has already been fought
and won(?) in the international community. And we have
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 11:15 AM, John Peacock wrote:
A lot of the 0-based vs 1-based arguments should be resolved simply by
having our interface design in place. Programmers will be less
inclined to have to look up some 0-based array when the API we provide
does it for them, i.e.
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 10:48 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, John Peacock wrote:
We really have to go with ISO because that battle has already been
fought and won(?) in the international community.
Well, I was going to say the following:
This is not about either ISO
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, David Wheeler wrote:
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 11:15 AM, John Peacock wrote:
A lot of the 0-based vs 1-based arguments should be resolved simply by
having our interface design in place. Programmers will be less
inclined to have to look up some 0-based array
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Rich Bowen wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Nick Tonkin wrote:
Funny how the Christian point of view is that Sunday is the first day of
the week, when God rested on the seventh day after working to make the
world. Seventh which is Sunday for Christians .. (and Saturday
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