Re: Specific Date-Time Formatting
Re: Specific Date-Time Formatting
- Subject: Re: Specific Date-Time Formatting
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 21:19:09 -0500
On 11/4/05,
Christopher Nebel <
email@hidden> wrote:
Frankly, I'm not sure why they were defined as classes either. It
was like that when I got here. (Perversely, the month "constants"
like January are also classes.) Somewhere down on my to-do list is
making "month" into a sensible class so that all of the above
expressions would work. (Except maybe "month January". What's the
point of that one as opposed to "month 1"?)
Legibility, or perhaps coercion from class January to class month . . . ?
Perhaps there are calendars where January is not the first month of the year?
(Like according to some sunday is the first day of the week, according to
others monday is.)
As far as I know, January as month 1 is universal (at least, among
those who use a calendar that has a month called January). Even
during the period when the year number changed on March 25th instead of
January 1st in the British Empire, January was still considered the
first month.
What's considered the "first day of the week" does vary widely, with
different regions and cultures beginning it on Saturday, Sunday, or
Monday. The ISO's calendar, in which each year is a whole number
of weeks and dates are identified by week number rather than month,
uses weeks which run Monday through Sunday, so today is the fifth day
of week 44 of 2005.
--
Mark J. Reed <
email@hidden>
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