Re: [coldsync-hackers] Adding events to your datebook

[Rich Bowen <rbowen@rcbowen.com>]

Andrew Arensburger wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Rich Bowen wrote:
> > One interesting side note. While I was working on this, I screwed up and
> > got days and months reversed. Coldsync quite happily told my Visor to
> > add events on the 2nd day of the 16th month of 2001. And my Visor quite
> > happily added the event. The only way to get to the event was to search
> > for it, since there was no other way to get to the day in question. I
> > was also able to add an event to the 0th of February.
> 
>         Frankly, I'm not sure whether this should be considered a bug in
> p5-Palm or not. If you want to shoot yourself in the foot, who am I to say
> you shouldn't?

Oh, I agree. I thought that it was pretty amusing, but more
interestingly, I think it means that implementing a different calendar
(like, for example, a 13-month Ethiopian calendar) would be really easy,
since the Palm calendar seems to impose no restriction on the number of
months and the number of days in a particular month.

There are, however, a plethora of Perl date and time modules that could
handle "error" checking for this sort of thing if you wanted values to
be prechecked. I don't think that's something that the p5-Palm modules
should do, since it's clear that the Palm itself does not do it either.

-- 
Rich Bowen <rbowen@rcbowen.com>
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