Re: The Emacs Calculator and calendar

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/08/2012 12:28 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> If the goal is to make calc and calendar compatible, wouldn't it also
> make sense to shift the numbering of days, so that <Mon Jan 1, +1>
> (Gregorian) will have day number 1?

Yes, that makes sense.  I did that in the revised patch, which I filed
as Bug#12633 <http://bugs.gnu.org/12633>.

On 10/08/2012 01:21 AM, James Cloos wrote:
> I would't remove the history lesson

Fair enough, I also did that in the revised patch, fixing some
bugs in the history while I was at it.

On 10/08/2012 07:59 AM, Jay Belanger wrote:
> The patch makes the Gregorian calendar the only choice for Calc, though,
> not just the default.  It should be configurable
On 10/11/2012 05:09 AM, Jason Rumney wrote:
> I think what would be most useful to users is for a message to to appear
> in the echo area

These could both be done, yes.  My revised patch doesn't implement
these ideas (it just does the simpler fix), but they might be nice
add-ons.