Can I add the Dekatrian Calendar?

[Luis Sousa]

I want to add implements the Dekatrian calendar for elixir, I want to know if I can do it and how is the steps to do this.

[w...@resilia.nl]

Hi there!

This is most definitely possible. You can do so in its own library, as Elixir's builtin date/time/calendar handling functionality is built in such a way that it is easily extendable for future calendars without changing the language itself.

It is recommended reading the documentation in the Calendar and the various date/time modules. It might also be worthwhile to look into how they are implemented by looking at their source.

As for examples of other calendars: Besides Calendar.ISO which ships with Elixir itself, there are a couple in ex_cldr_calendars and libraries dependent on that as well.

Cheers,

~Marten/Qqwy

[Luis Sousa]

Thank you for your explanation, it helped me.

I think that calendar modules may stay in core, so, with a external libary its possible to use the date and dateTime just pass my module as one of the arguments right?!

Thanks for your attention,

Luis Sousa

[Kip]

That's quite a simple calendar (other than Acrônian and Synchronion) so I suggest look at the Calendar behaviour and then the very simple holocene calendar that is used in Elixir tests.  I've built quite a few Elixir calendars to happy to help.