[Patches] [ python-Patches-445770 ] Make calendar.py work forever.

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Patches item #445770, was opened at 2001-07-29 15:06
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Category: library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Joseph A Knapka (jknapka)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Make calendar.py work forever.

Initial Comment:
Changes to calendar.py (using a lot of code
stolen from Pmw) to make it work for
essentially any date, and handle Julian vs.
Gregorian dating properly. julian=[-1|0|1]
and papal=[0|1] arguments added to many
functions, with appropriate defaults. If
julian==1, Julian dating is used; if julian==0
Gregorian dating is used; if julian==-1
the code decides based on the date which
dating system to use. If papal==1 the Gregorian
reformation is applied in October 1582,
the year of the edict; if papal==0 the
reformation is applied in September 1752,
the year in which Britain applied the change.
julian defaults to -1 and papal to 0, so
normally no one will need to care about
them.

Dependencies on the "time" module have
been removed.

Added functions:
 ymdtojdn(y,m,d) - convert year,month,day to Julian
    day number
 jdntoymd(jdn) - convert jdn to (year,month,day)
    tuple.
 jdntodow(jdn) - compute the day-of-week (0-6)
    of a Julian day number.

Modified all existing code to use the new date and
day-of-week code. So "prcal()" for example does
the right thing.

Testing: it gets the same answers as the "cal"
program for a selection of months between 01/01
and 9999/12, including Oct 1582 and Sept 1752,
when papal=0.

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>Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-07-29 15:29

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Apart from the novelty value, what's the point of supporting
calendars hundreds of years back? Why does this belong in
the standard library?

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