[Development] Calendar Systems proposal

[Ch'Gans]

On 16 December 2016 at 10:10, Sune Vuorela <nospam at vuorela.dk> wrote:
> 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)

Boost have them all: date/time, calendar, time zone, time period and
time duration
Date/Time is a very tricky subject, why not rely on boost implementation?

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/libs/locale/doc/html/group__date__time.html


Chris


>
> /Sune
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