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----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
To: "XML DEV" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:48 AM
Subject: [xml-dev] dates (was Re: [xml-dev] W3C Schema: Resistance is
Futile, says Don Box)
> Does anyone know of more general references covering date issues?
>
> I'd be looking for something that covers a wide variety of different
> calendars and variations within calendars - everything from
> Julian/Gregorian to January/April year starts to lunar/solar to variations
> on cycles.
Look in GNU emacs. It has a calendar facility of great flexibility and
comprehensiveness. The technical background (snipped from the
implementation file calendar.el) is specified as:
;; Technical details of all the calendrical calculations can be found in
;; ``Calendrical Calculations'' by Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold,
;; Cambridge University Press (1997).
;; An earlier version of the technical details appeared in
;; ``Calendrical Calculations'' by Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold,
;; Software--Practice and Experience, Volume 20, Number 9 (September, 1990),
;; pages 899-928. ``Calendrical Calculations, Part II: Three Historical
;; Calendars'' by E. M. Reingold, N. Dershowitz, and S. M. Clamen,
;; Software--Practice and Experience, Volume 23, Number 4 (April, 1993),
;; pages 383-404.
;; Hard copies of these two papers can be obtained by sending email to
;; reingold@cs.uiuc.edu with the SUBJECT "send-paper-cal" (no quotes) and
;; the message BODY containing your mailing address (snail).
;; Comments, corrections, and improvements should be sent to
;; Edward M. Reingold Department of Computer Science
;; (217) 333-6733 University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
;; reingold@cs.uiuc.edu 1304 West Springfield Avenue
;; Urbana, Illinois 61801
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