[Evolution] International calendar request

[Hassan Aurag <aurag geocities com>]

 First happy new year everyone. Speaking of which, I'd have a request with which I might help.

 While most people use the standard grogorian calendar, I think many (muslims and hebrews among others) might want to use other calendars. My request here applies equally well to the stock gtkcalendar widget, but that's another issue.

 For the islamic calendar I can help with the functions to convert, but I am sure you will find many people who'd help with other calendars (the other I know of is the hebrew one). 

 The implementation would essentially go like this:

 - modular so that people not interested in other calendars won't have to download all modules related to those. 
 - Each module would implement either a combo standard/other calendar or only other calendar depending on user's wish.
 - Translation when it becomes applicable is handled by that module.
 - All internal scheduling is handled by standar time: so when one appointement is entered in eg muslim dates it'd be converted to standard time before processing.
 - In a few words, the module should implement the visual part of calendaring.

 Thanks for reading thus far.

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Hassan Aurag 
CAE Electronics Ltd. 
Aircraft Systems Specialist - Update Group 
Email: auragNOSPAM cae ca

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