On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Johannes Schlüter wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 10:35 +0200, Gustavo Lopes wrote:
> > 
> > I have exposed ICU's Calendar API to PHP via the intl extension. It 
> > allows date calculations with Gregorian, Chinese, Coptic, Ethiopic, 
> > Hebrew, Indian, Islamic (civil/religious), Japanese, Persian, Taiwan 
> > and Thai Buddhist calendars. For a broader overview of its 
> > functionality, see:
> 
> Basically it is good to have those calender stuff available. I wonder 
> how this relates to our datelib. Can this somehow be integrated, at 
> least for Gregorian calender times, so one can easily convert from one 
> to the other etc.? Ideally we'd just have one API :-)

Sadly, when I looked at it last time, the ICU stuff insistent on having 
a timestamp only as input to their formatting functionality :-/ We'd 
need to use a few things on the ext/date side to get ICU locale 
formatting into the date/time stuff.

cheers,
Derick

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