Re: Parsing date and time specifications

Ketil Malde writes:

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.

Take a look at "remind" for a language that can express all these things, *and* knows the date of Easter. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3529 http://www.roaringpenguin.com/remind/ Not suggesting we copy this directly, of course!! --KW 8-) PS: Happy New Year, everyone! -- Keith Wansbrough http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/kw217/ University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.