[Development] Calendar Systems proposal

[André Somers]

Op 15/12/2016 om 22:10 schreef Sune Vuorela:
> On 2016-12-15, Soroush Rabiei <soroush.rabiei at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2.History
>>
> Hi
>
> I would welcome more calendar systems.  Personally I hope for french
> revolutionary calendar. Because it is funny.
>
> I think you need to touch quite some of the 'inner bits' of date / time,
> and while you are there, I'd love if the design could make it easier to
> implement my two missing pet features:
>   - Partial dates
>   - Date/time intervals/delta's.
>
> You might need the latter part for the implementation.
>
> (By partial dates, I mean e.g. my friend has birthday on november 1st.
> every year. or unknown year.)
>
> (by date/time deltas, I e.g. I started working somewhere on november 1st
> 2014. and stopped january 3rd 2015. How long did I work there)
If memory serves me right: When, years ago, I tried to get the latter 
in, the work was a bit blocked because somebody else what working on... 
calendar support. :-)

André