an annual calendar somewhere?

Andre.Bisseret Andre.Bisseret at inria.fr
Sat Feb 27 09:08:09 EST 2010


Bonjour,

2010/2/26 Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>:
>> FWIW, here's a a function I pulled out of my archives which is a  
>> sort of
>> variant of Cal in native RevTalk, making a single month from a date  
>> passed
>> to it.  I'll leave it as an exercise to the user to make a year out  
>> of it if
>> needed.
>>
>> One of the nice things about RevTalk is that the weekDayNames and  
>> monthNames
>> functions return values in the current system's local language, so  
>> this is
>> localized without having to do anything.
>> Interestingly, without the overhead involved in going to shell it's  
>> about 20
>> times faster on my machine than calling shell("cal").

Le 27 févr. 10 à 01:12, zryip theSlug a écrit :
>
> It's instant on my machine. So with your script I could back in  
> time? 8-)

Very fast indeed on my machine too. Thank you much Richard


>
> However as far I have understood it seems that the property
> useSystemDate set to true is necessary to obtain values according with
> the local language.
> Plus, a second difficulty exists: the week don't starts necessary a
> Sunday but a Monday.
>
> So I try to improve the Richard's solution like this:
>
...
...
>
> If some members of the list could validate this script in their own
> language? 8-)
>
>
> -> If your weeks starts a Monday call the function like this:
>
> set useSystemDate to true
> put cal(the date,"Monday") into fld "myField"

Works perfectly here ; very fast too
>

And thanks a lot Zryip for your other recent posts : links to the work  
of David Beck and to your experiment 009.
Sure will give me usefull hints

Best regards from Grenoble

André




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