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by Lance Latham
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Lance Latham's Standard C Date/Time Library aims to solve the problem with time and calendars on computers. This book publishes the author's C library with functions (included on CD-ROM) for many of the world's calendars, interspersed with some truly fascinating historical material that makes sense of humankind's myriad attempts to get a handle on time. The Standard C Date/Time Library begins with a description of the Y2K problem. The author then proceeds to show that definitions of years, months, and days are subject to different standards, many of which are the result of "applied astronomy." He develops his comprehensive solution using the Julian calendar and represents hours and minutes as fractions of days. His Standard C Date/Time Library (STDTL) offers extremely comprehensive functionality, allowing you to calculate differences between days and days of the week, as well as calculations for holidays. The author intersperses source code listings with wide-ranging descriptions of calendars and their inconsistencies. For the treatment of the Western calendar and ISO 8601 standard time functions, this code library is worth it. However, the author goes much further and offers code for and descriptions of all the major calendars of the world, including non-Western calendars and ancient calendar systems. --Richard Dragan
Book Description
Does the year 2000 have you sweating late-night code? Use our complete library of C programming functions to master 'Y2K', time on the net, ISO 8601, time stamp compression, or any other time/date application you encounter. Using the astronomers' Julian Day calendar as a common denominator between the world calendars, Lance Latham has solved the conversion of virtually all the world calendars (including the Chinese!). Need to convert dates in the Maya calendar to equivalent dates in the Egyptian...  read more
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