From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-08-28T19:05:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Chronos - A project needs your help

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:11:26 -0500, Stefan Rusterholz wrote:

> Summarized for those who don't like long texts first :)
> 
> What is Chronos?
> A high level library to deal with date, time, duration and intervals.
> Providing an interface for multiple calendary systems.

> What help do you need?
> * I need to know what behaviour you expect in certain ambiguous
> situations, see NOTES.rdoc for some of those cases. * Translations to
> other languages, I can do en_U, de_DE, de_CH and de_AT. But for pretty
> much all others I need contributions * Calendary systems: I did
> Gregorian and probably will also do Julian (as it's just a simpler
> version of Gregorian), but for all other calendary systems, I will need
> contributions (e.g. chinese, hebrew and discordian calendary systems -
> there are most certainly more) * Documentation: please read the docs and
> tell me where they are unclear and how one could improve them. Even more
> appreciated: write doc-patches.
> * Specs: add specs, the more the better.

Could you or some other contributor port the tzfile library to Chronos, 
so that Chronos::Zone can use the system's timezone existing library on 
Linux?


-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/