20 Dec
2002
20 Dec
'02
2:32 p.m.
On 20 Dec 2002, Ketil Z. Malde wrote: (snip)
Since it's almost Christmas, I'd also like a way to specify things like "first Tuesday of every month", or "the day before (last Thursday of every month)". And a GHC target for my Palm Pilot :-) We could build a really cool Cron replacement, and become rich and famous. (snip)
That is the slippery end of the wedge - next we'll be wanting standard library functions for calculating when Easter and Id-ul-Fitr are. (-: The calendar source code I'd referred to before was indeed written to get all this type of stuff into my m100 - I type "calendar 2004" or whatever and hand that to install-datebook. (Is all the world on a seven-day week? I wonder how that came about.) -- Mark