From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The Emacs Calculator and calendar Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:49:43 -0500 Message-ID: <87zk3xhvco.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87y5jk3f7d.fsf@gmail.com> <87626md8aj.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <83vcem6592.fsf@gnu.org> <5071E6E7.7080906@cs.ucla.edu> <5072731C.8000408@cs.ucla.edu> <20594.32926.513095.185389@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349707804 554 80.91.229.3 (8 Oct 2012 14:50:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 14:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 08 16:50:10 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TLEek-0006Ji-HK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:50:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60648 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLEee-0000Yx-Fc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34263) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLEeZ-0000XC-0B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:49:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLEeV-0000IV-3a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:49:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:34834) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLEeU-0000I8-Uv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:49:51 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ob0-f169.google.com with SMTP id va7so4134537obc.0 for ; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:49:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:reply-to:cc:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=NXF5ICd68D5NhrncKepiyygqhWKzoSkO8yJWMwa09oE=; b=AfmmCCpx5jSOHOZcy8eROlOUuffC6Cg2a1JHr3H/eN1w7KriGYRB6ATHOf2oWwxOzw FgG5QTnGI5xCKIXOQSWIK6AzqYb7J8pltVKuqlu2I965w0/86smZLO40cLcv5necYd/2 lXLR4Nm4COY4KM0Wsf6pWwlUjMlK3PkntpzSWMMLRUUAMrTZbk8eRWcS9WjF74ASFIpt rJIhu63Om5A0IAos6j3jjTXkwRAABt4ASgySo9RYyiim3pq3E7AWACOfdxyOt+H0DNBv OImkX3yZ2aT8qVScNp1IwlewcZXIbaKirfGHxw5SDWYii7/kEJXqDMJH+5XHcQfFLm2R h9EQ== Original-Received: by 10.60.26.133 with SMTP id l5mr13702035oeg.60.1349707789446; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:49:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from belanger-home (184-155-88-117.cpe.cableone.net. [184.155.88.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hz6sm17363365obb.1.2012.10.08.07.49.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:49:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:56:28 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.214.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154235 Archived-At: >> If the goal is to make calc and calendar compatible, wouldn't it also >> make sense to shift the numbering of days, so that >> (Gregorian) will have day number 1? > > I wish/hope that Calc can use Calendar's code to do the conversions. Calc can use arbitrary sized integers to store dates, so it can't directly use Calendar's code. It does use rewritten versions of Calendar's code though (rewritten so it can use large integers).