RE: [boost] Date/Time formal review

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-18 07:28:18

> > > Building Eurocentric assumptions into the language...
> >
> > Not sure where you got that idea from? This doesn't look Eurocentric to
> > me. Almost all European countries use DST, which isn't well supported by
> > the proposed library. :-)
>
> By "Eurocentric" I meant "Western culture centric". Anything that gives
> the Gregorian calendar a standard status without giving equal status to
> the Muslim, Hindu, etc etc etc calendars should be rejected.
>
> (Yes, I know that's what we have now. That's no excuse to compound the
> error.)

I hope in time the status is equal.  I would love to help people that have an interest in
contributing other calendar systems.

Jeff