Re: [Evolution] RE: [Evolution] International calendar request

[Hassan Aurag <aurag geocities com>]

 I fully agree about the switching back and forth it should be something like a toggle or option or whatever.

I am still waiting from someone from Helix to share his/her thoughts though before I commit time.

On 02 Jan 2001 11:00:12 +0200, Adam Moskof wrote:

> 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.

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> 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.

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> Adam

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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

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> 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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