Re: Re: Perl 6 release date

[ichimunki]

Please tell me there is an application that spits out the above information given a date input.

[cciulla]

Yeah, there's bunches. I know that some Thai's use a funky calendar, so I did a search on Google for "calendar thai gregorian," followed a link to Cyndi's List - Calendars & Dates, and finally found Cumberland Family Software's Universal Calendar Converter.

Three caveats:
• Windows-only (written in Clarion, FWIW)
• It's a great example of how NOT to design a user interface
• They're charging $25 bucks for it, and two other programs

When I get some gumption (I'm fresh out), I'll write a calendar converter in perl (or whatnot).

C²

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Oh, yeah, I was disappointed that they didn't have Aztec, Mayan, or Incan dates. That's why I'll write one, if for no other reason.

[Sweeper]

Oh, yeah, I was disappointed that they didn't have Aztec, Mayan, or Incan dates. That's why I'll write one, if for no other reason.

You can have Mayan dates in CPAN (and Discordian and Hobbit, too). On 2003-02-03, my .profile script will print:

Today is Quintidi 15 Pluviôse CCXI, jour de la vache
Hebrew: 5763 Adar 1
Maya: long 12.19.9.17.9, Tzolkin 7 Muluc, Haab 2 Pax
Prickle Prickle, Chaos 34 YOLD 3169
Today is Mersday 12 Solmath 7467

Thanks to: http://search.cpan.org/author/ABIGAIL/Date_Maya-1.1/
http://search.cpan.org/author/RBOW/Date-Discordian-1.35/
http://search.cpan.org/author/TBRAUN/Date-Tolkien-Shire-1.1/
and others