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Re: about-time Time, Duration, and TimeSpan library updated

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On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 4:53:43 AM UTC-6, Simon Blackwell wrote:

> Under the assumption you are or could be a user, this matters. We have not had to deal with it for our clients.

I would not be one of your clients. I already have a library for date and time manipulation based on the efforts of J.R. Stockton[1] and others.

> It would seem the best place to add this capability would be Time, by changing its constructor signature to Time(value,precision="ms",calendar="G").
> 
> We could also have a method Time.prototype.toCalendar(calendar,modify=true) which would return a modified or new Time converted from the current calendar to the new one.
> 
> Would the above be adequate?

That would depend on your target usage and library consumers.

> Are there calendars other than Julian and Gregorian you think we should support, e.g Hebrew?

Personally, I am indifferent. Have you compared your library to others in use in JavaScript at this point?

> Finally, if you have to prioritize features which would you want:
> 
> 1) calendar conversion
> 2) time service synch capability, i.e. ensure accurate time for the local compute context
> 3) time zone conversions

#2 seems a strange feature. Do you have an example?

[1]<https://web.archive.org/web/20150514050046/http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/contents.htm#dat>

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about-time Time, Duration, and TimeSpan library updated Simon Blackwell <syblackwell@anywhichway.com> - 2016-01-09 06:16 -0800
  Re: about-time Time, Duration, and TimeSpan library updated "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-01-09 16:32 -0800
    Re: about-time Time, Duration, and TimeSpan library updated Simon Blackwell <syblackwell@anywhichway.com> - 2016-01-10 02:53 -0800
      Re: about-time Time, Duration, and TimeSpan library updated "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-01-10 14:49 -0800
        Re: about-time Time, Duration, and TimeSpan library updated Simon Blackwell <syblackwell@anywhichway.com> - 2016-01-11 14:41 -0800
      Re: about-time Time, Duration, and TimeSpan library updated Dr J R Stockton <reply1600@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-01-11 20:57 +0000

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