Yes this all makes a lot of sense. I would propose changing the name from business days to weekdays though. Does anyone object wih that? On 7/30/08, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <ivan@selidor.net> wrote:
Tom Denniston (el 2008-07-30 a les 13:12:45 -0500) va dir::
If it's really just weekdays why not call it that instead of using a term like business days that (quite confusingly) suggests holidays are handled properly?
Yes, that may be a better term. I guess we didn't choose that because we aren't native English speakers, and because TimeSeries was already using the other term.
Also, I view the timezone and holiday issues as totally seperate. I would definately NOT recommend basing holidays on a timezone because holidays are totally unrelated to timezones. Usually when you deal with holidays, because they vary by application and country and change over time, you provide a calendar as an outside input. That would be very useful if that were allowed, but might make the implementation rather complex.
I think that what Francesc was trying to say is that taking holidays into account would be way too difficult to be implemented. Timezones were just an example of another (unrelated) feature we left out due to its complexity.
On 7/30/08, Francesc Alted <faltet@pytables.org> wrote:
A Wednesday 30 July 2008, Tom Denniston escrigué:
When people are refering to busienss days are you talking about weekdays or are you saying weekday non-holidays?
Plain weekdays. Taking in account holidays for all the world round would be certainly much more complex than timezones, which neither are being considered in this proposal.
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