Time and dates: Just for fun

Hi,

Just for fun, when we scratch our head about lunar dates, julian to gregorian conversion, etc, here is a little video about time and timezone coding difficulties: https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY

Patrice

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Ha! That’s a good one.

Here’s some fun with Chinese kinship terms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCFRoILS1jY

That would be a nice enhancement to the Gramps relationship calculator, no?

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In lunar calendars, the time of a new moon depends on the longitude. Also, semi-lunar calendars have a leap month.

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Yes. We already support some of this. Turkish makes a distinction between your mother’s brother and your father’s brother for example.

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