The Timing of Time

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at squeakland.org
Wed Apr 26 21:12:54 UTC 2006


  Alan,

> Francisco: "I don't understand why you need so many different calendars. For
> the example that I first posted (adjust a schedule to the japanese
> calendar), you suggested that the Japanese imperial calendar would need to
> be implemented. I would like to know what kind of applications are you
> dealing with, in which expressing the dates in the original calendar is
> important. For a financial application, the japanese calendar is just
> another gregorian calendar with certain dates defined as bank
> holidays."

  By the way, the Japanese calendar in last 100 year or so uses the
same day and month as the Gregorian's, but the years are counted
differently.  If someone is writing an application that will be used
by a financial institution or a school or such, it should handle that.
For example, today (Apr 26th, 2006) is 18th year of Heisei, 4th month,
26th day, but 20 years ago was 61st year of Showa, 4th month, 26th
day.

-- Yoshiki



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