1934 Was Not Such A Good Year

[Mark Smith]

Sarah Reichelt has done a library ( http://www.troz.net/Rev/ 
libraries.html ) that includes Julian dates, and various other types,  
including numeric dates eg 20060202, which I've found useful.


Mark

On 2 Feb 2006, at 21:10, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> On Feb 2, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
>
>> I just want to confirm that Revolution does not recognize years  
>> before 1935.  The following handler converts a short date in 1934  
>> to it's long date and the result is 2034.
>>
>> 	Gregory
>>
>> set useSystemDate to true
>> put "13/5/1934" into x
>> if x is a date
>> then
>> put "Yes, it's a date."
>> convert x to long date
>> put return & x after msg
>> else
>> put "Nope."
>> end if
>
> Gregory,
>
> I've found that working with dates in Rev can be kind of a pain.  I  
> have a history project that needs to deal with dates in B.C. and  
> A.D.  What I am experimenting with right now is using Julian dates  
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_date>.  These end up being  
> decimal number that is easy to compare, sort, etc.  I found some  
> javascript functions for converting YYYY-MM-DD to Julian dates  
> here: <http://aa.usno.navy.mil/js/JulianDate.js>.  The calculator  
> that uses that code is at <http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/ 
> JulianDate.html>.
>
> I have the Transcript versions available if you want to see them  
> but I have put them through enough testing yet so there may still  
> be some glitches.
>
> Maybe someone else has a better suggestion then going this route  
> but Julian Dates seemed to solve the problems I was facing.
>
>
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
> Blue Mango Multimedia
> trevor at mangomultimedia.com
>
>
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