Re: calander package - Proposal for dates

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <995asr$m34$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>
>Well, the problem is this: If you *don't* want to limit things to some fixed
>set of formats, you're only going to invent some programming language for
>"rolling your own". Maybe it would be a tad easier than simply using Ada
..
>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. For the last version of the
SETI@Home Service I ended up having to write 2 separate time stamp routines
("DD/MM/YY HH:MM:SS" and "Month Day Year, HH:MM:SS Meridian"). It should be
pretty obvious that they coudn't share much code. The last time I wrote one
before that, it was in yet another format that included the miliseconds, since
that was a real-time system where the MS between two events could be very
important.

The only time-related thing I'd really like to see some reusable component for
would be for finding the day of the week.

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