RE: Alternative calendars and holidays, moon phases etc. Was: announce: www-rdf-calendar mailing list

It needs a way of relating one clock to another that can be daisy-chained, so
I can get from yours to mine and back.

And of stating that Something happens at particular points of a given clock.

chaals

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Danny Ayers wrote:

  <- In a single sentence:
  <- Attempting to teach a calendaring _protocol_ about local holidays is
  <- pointless because such notions should be subsumed in a more general
  <- mechanism for deferring the management of your available time, etc, to
  <- external agents.

  In other words, all the protocol needs is a standard clock?


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