On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:18 PM, <pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl> wrote:
> [P6 Spec] completely changed S32::Temporal > What motivated these changes? > +Time is just a jumbled iTem. > iTem? > +=item * 12hour > > +=item * 24hour I don't like using strings for these. Feels like they should be symbols, but they they can't start with digits. Maybe "ampm" for 12-hour and "iso" for 24-hour? > (i.e. if $*CALENDAR is 'Gregorian' $*TODAY should be something like > '12-31-10', depending on how things are formatted) > What determines how things should be formatted? Using strings in code to construct dates is bad - see AppleScript. I'd much rather see you have to specify :year(), :month(), and :day(). +=item * Julian (the predecessor of Gregorian. NOT the astronomical Julian > Year) > That's an awfully loud caveat, especially since it's incorrect. The astronomical Julian year is the mean year of the predecessor of the Gregorian calendar. Since they're the same thing, confusing them is not really a concern. (Astronomers use the Julian calendar because a Julian century is a whole number of days, whereas in the Gregorian calendar you have to get to 400 years before you have a repeatable whole-day cycle).
