Posical, the Positivist Calendar for Python

Re:Posical, the Positivist Calendar for Python by crux on Friday April 18, 2014 @07:31PM (#7611873)

Good question. In the library, intercalary days are just their own month. So it would just be 2015-14-1.

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Re:Posical, the Positivist Calendar for Python by userbinator on Friday April 18, 2014 @09:20PM (#7612157)

In other words, there's actually a 14 month that either contains 1 or 2 days, both of which have no weekday associated with them?

I don't see how it would make things much easier, especially for timestamps in various date formats and date-input fields.

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Re:Posical, the Positivist Calendar for Python by toyg on Saturday April 19, 2014 @03:56AM (#7612896)

Why? It's still three numeric digits. If anything, it would be much easier to calculate date validity. In Python:

  acceptable_days = range(1,29)
  if pickedMonth == 14:
     acceptable_days = [1];
     if isLeapYear(year): acceptable_days = [1,2]
     # any future hack will just go here 
  
  if pickedDay not in acceptable_days or pickedMonth > 14: 
     raise InvalidDateException()

Compare this with anything we use today. Which code is simpler?

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