Re: New clock applet for 2.22

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

ons, 03.10.2007 kl. 12.28 -0400, skrev Hubert Figuiere:
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:55 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:41 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > New d-d-l rule: no one gets to say 'it is useful' without explaining
> > > their use case :)
> > > 
> > > Luis (I believe you that you use it, but I can't for the life of me
> > > figure out why)
> > 
> > Because project plans at work are often based on week number.  Task foo
> > has to be completed in week 38, this image was built in week 36, etc.
> 
> But then you have to make sure week start right. Some consider week 1
> starting January 1st (eventually being less than 7 days), some consider
> week 1 starting the first Sunday or Monday (oh another exception) of
> January. This is a major source of confusion that has to be taken into
> account for the design.
> 
All this should just come from libc. I don't think we should do anything
special here at all. I think all the needed data is available in the
locale data.

Cheers
Kjartan