[Evolution] RE: [Evolution] International calendar request

[Adam Moskof <AdamM Amdocs com>]

I must agree to the request of Mr. Aurag. Having a modular calendar which
supports other calendars would be a good idea. And if it were all based upon
the Gregorian calendar, the other calendars doing conversions, it definately
should be easy to implement. I am not su sure that the Hebrew calendar will
be all that popular (nobody uses it except to figure out when the holidays
occur), it is still a nice idea. And if the Muslim calendar is created, it
shouldn't be to hard to port it.
 
One thing I would like to add. If the calendar could be created to toggle
back and forth between the Gregorian/Other, it would be terrific. Then you
could put in an appointment on the 15th of January, click the toggle button,
and find out the date in the "XYZ" calendar. I would be happy to contribute
to the project as well.
 
Adam






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Adam Moskof 
Unix System Administrator 
Xpert Integrated Systems 
Herzeliya, ISRAEL 
email: adam xpert com 
tel: +972-9-9761206 
fax: +972-9-9522366 
cell: +972-58-500997 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hassan Aurag [mailto:aurag geocities com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:15 AM
To: evolution helixcode com
Subject: [Evolution] International calendar request



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 <mailto:auragNOSPAM cae ca> 

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