[HN Gopher] Conversion of the date formats to and from Ethiopian...
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Conversion of the date formats to and from Ethiopian calendar
Author : graderjs
Score : 14 points
Date : 2021-03-30 12:16 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| lainga wrote:
| If the calendar has "13 months, 12 months each with 13 days and 1
| more month with 5 or 6 days", is the year only 161 or 162 days
| long? Or are the days counted longer than 24 hours?
| jdmichal wrote:
| It's supposed to be 12 months of _30_ days.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar
| lainga wrote:
| Someone beat me to it by 9 minutes :)
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| https://github.com/melaku-z/ethio-european-date-
| converter/pu...
| besnn00 wrote:
| you guys beat me to it by a couple hours
| _Microft wrote:
| The name of one particular month is "Megabit" by the way:
|
| https://github.com/melaku-z/ethio-european-date-converter/bl...
| jtbayly wrote:
| They also celebrate the New Year on September 11, which they were
| quick to point out when I was there had _nothing_ to do with the
| 9 /11 attacks and they were _not_ celebrating those in any way. I
| was much more interested in how the calendar works than in their
| attempts to keep me unoffended. lol
|
| Neat tool!
| bonzini wrote:
| I found the source at https://github.com/melaku-z/ethio-european-
| date-converter/tr... and another 35 lines of unit tests nearby.
|
| As a C developer, may I ask what the other 100 or so files are
| for? And why does a date library require a docker-compose.yaml
| file?
| villasv wrote:
| The repository doesn't contain just a library, but also a web
| app (https://ethiopian-calendar.netlify.app/)
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