Re: [Gretl-devel] RFC: gretl calendar
Am 21.02.2017 um 19:04 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
dealing with historical data. Internally, we're now using
GLib's
GDate API (with some additional algorithms for handling Julian dates) in
So, comments welcome.
My spontaneous reaction is that gretl (== Allin) shouldn't have to solve
these issues, because this is something that some other library should
provide. If they do it wrong, gretl should basically just shrug and do
nothing.
I mean, now you're fixing the ancient calendar for the entire
open-source world? Where are all the historians?
(My excuses to all econometric medievalists out there...)
cheers,
sven