> $hour = 0 .. 24 Did you mean 0 .. 23? > $wday = 1 .. 7 # 1 == Sunday, 7 == Saturday > I'm still a little uneasy about C<$wday> starting with 1 == Sunday, just > because Monday seems like the first day of the week to me. But I'm not > the one writing the calendars, and it seems silly to only have one value > that's 0-indexed. Oh, well. :-) I am strongly opposed to this. $wday should remain 0 .. 6. Reasons: 1. People don't use numeric days of the week the way they use numeric months. (At least nobody I know does.) We want the month to be 1-based to conform to the way people use numeric months. This doesn't apply to the day of the week. 2. It means "@dow = qw(S M T W T F S);" works as expected, without having to introduce a bogus 0th element.. 3. Date systems that count days since some epoch (like the Julian date) calculate day of week with ($date % 7), which of course is in the range 0 .. 6. And with most such systems, 0 is Sunday. 4. That's what localtime did, and everybody's used to it. I can't think of one advantage to having $wday be 1 .. 7. (Well, Microsoft Excel uses 1 .. 7, but I'm not sure that's an advantage. :-) As for being the only 0-based field, what about $hour, $min, and $sec? -- Chris Madsen http://www.trx.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] TRX Technology Services (214) 346-4611
