Re: Date function

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 05/11/2025 à 23:33, Jussi Lahtinen a écrit :
>     Paper calendar shows dates, not timestamp.
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>     You can't think correctly about this subject if you are making a
>     confusion between dates and timestamps.
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> Semantics. Then Gambas needs actual Dates.

This is what I meant in the wiki when I wrote: "This could be an 
interesting development to do: adding support for different calendars, 
with transparent conversion between Gambas dates and local dates."

A date will not be able to be named "Date", as it's already used, so it 
will have to be named "CalendarDate" or something like that.

Then one function for converting a "CalendarDate" to a "Date" and 
another one for the contrary must be written for each type of calendar 
in the world: Gregorian, Julian, Muslim, Hebraic, Chinese...

There is a full list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_calendars

Almost one hundred of different calendars!

The same way "Date" string representations need a timezone, 
"CalendarDate" string representation will need a calendar type.

Of course it is more complex that I just said: a type of calendar 
usually has many ways of representing a date as a string.

A complex project to do for anyone who dares.

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.