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At a more coarse-grained level, "Calendrical Calculations" by Dershowitz and Reingold is very interesting. It describes many different world and historical cale
by nonamegiven 14y ago
At a more coarse-grained level, "Calendrical Calculations" by Dershowitz and Reingold is very interesting. It describes many different world and historical calendar systems, and includes lisp code to convert between them.
Among many other problems, converting between calendar systems requires that you define when a day starts; there are many ways to define that among the systems.
I think I have the latest, the third edition, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521885409 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521885...
- mgunes 14y agoFor those less practically interested in the history of the computation of time, Arno Borst's "The Ordering Of Time: From The Ancient Computus To The Modern Computer" is recommended reading.