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Short: Library to help you calculate dates
Author: hofmann@hofmann-int.de (Dipl.-Inform. Kai Hofmann)
Uploader: hofmann@hofmann-int.de (Dipl.-Inform. Kai Hofmann)
Version: 33.324
Type: util/libs
Requires: OS 1.2
DESCRIPTION
A library that gives you low level functions for date calculations.
Includes the following features:
- Support for six different date/time measurement systems:
Julian, Gregorian, Heis, Julian Day, Modified Julian Day,
Scaliger Year (other systems will follow).
- Month/Weekday and other date/time string support for 28 languages.
- Support for different countries (implementation not finished!).
- Calculating leap years.
- Functions to calculate the days of a month or a year or between
two dates.
- Functions to calculate the weeknumber and the weekday.
- Check the validity of a date.
- Calculating Easter.
- Comparing dates.
- Powerful functions to handle differences between dates.
- Transformations from one time measurement system to the others.
- Calculating your local time zone out of your position on the earth.
- Calculating the age of the moon and the moon phase.
- Check the validity of a time.
- Comparing times.
- Transforming 24h time format into seconds and back.
- Transforming 24h time format to Julian Day time format and back.
- Every weekday can be the first day of the week.
- Supplement two digit years to four digit years.
- Formatting of date and time values into strings.
- Parsing date and time values from strings via templates or
powerful autoanlysation.
- Converting weekday/week/year to day/month/year vice versa.
- Converting a date/time pair from local to GMT and vice versa while taking
daylight saving time into account.
- Autodocs describing all functions of the library.
- Interfaces for: C/C++, Modula II, Oberon, Amiga-E, Assembler,
Cluster, Blitz Basic 2, ARexx.
- Including ANSI-C test example.
NEW FEATURES
- Updated language strings
- Added 7 new languages (thanks to ATO)
- Bug fixes in ParseDate() and DateLib-Demo.c
- Internal changes and optimizations for future expansions
- Changed ParseDate() and FormatDate() %j to "day of the year"
for compatibility reasons
- Changed FormatDate() interface !!!
- Added two banners
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