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Re: dates (was Re: W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile,

• To: simonstl@s... (Simon St.Laurent)
• Subject: Re: dates (was Re: W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile,
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:13:19 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l... (XML DEV)
• In-reply-to: <4.2.0.58.20020611144505.01f9b7d0@p...> from "Simon St.Laurent" at Jun 11, 2002 02:48:18 PM

Simon St.Laurent scripsit:
> 
> Does anyone know of more general references covering date issues?

The place to start, and pretty surely the place to stop, too, is
Claus Tondering's Calendar FAQ at http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calendar.html

> I'd be looking for something that covers a wide variety of different 
> calendars and variations within calendars - everything from 
> Julian/Gregorian to January/April year starts to lunar/solar to variations 
> on cycles.

This is what you want.  Information on the following calendars: Julian,
Gregorian, Hebrew, Islamic, French Revolutionary, Maya, and Chinese.
Also stuff on Easter, Julian day numbers, year starts, and the 7-day week.
<toot>I contributed the bit on why the planets/gods are assigned to
the particular weekdays they are.</toot>

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I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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