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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: calander package - Proposal for dates
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:34:24 +0200
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Ted and Marin basically agreed:

> >I've coded a bunch of date/time-to-string formatting routines with Ada
and
> >they are generally pretty small. If you were to provide some flavor of
>
> That's pretty much my opinon on the subject as well.
>
> The only time-related thing I'd really like to see some reusable component
for
> would be for finding the day of the week.
>

I pretty much agree with this too. Maybe some other basic stuff (checking
for leap years?).
All I was saying is that IF it is decided to include things that vary from
place to place, one should try to support some flexibility.

I for one don't think dates are really all that interesting. I think UI
components (or APIs..) are much more important. But also much harder to get
right.


Ehud Lamm