Re: Re-writing Genealogy::Gedcom::Date

Hi Walter

Thanx for the info.

I am, however, confused by your email. The docs for my module [1], under 
'Description', clearly refer to 'The Gedcom Specification, p 45'.

So, no, I am not redefining anything. I'm just writing an interface to 
the 1999 Gedcom spec.

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Genealogy::Gedcom::Date

On 07/11/15 13:30, Walter wrote:
> For dates, you are perhaps better off using existing libraries than
> redefining your own.
>
> The main international library that I am aware of with multilingual
> calendar-related strings is International Components for Unicode (ICU)
> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Components_for_Unicode
>
> The main one for calendars is 'tz' -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANA_time_zone_database
>
> These are the de-facto libraries used by desktop and mobile Linux
> systems. While they have serious issues and TZ in particular appears
> to be loaded with bureaucratic, cultural and technical baggage of
> bygone eras, they are the 'standard solution' in this space.
>
> Both already have good perl integration, no doubt.
>
> - Walter
>

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