wtgee has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

We will be doing some calculations across time zones and international formats and just wondering what has worked best for people. I have been looking at using Date::Greogrian::Business but dont' specifically see anything about foriegn dates other than it mentioning there were some pre-configured banking systems (it gives Germany as an example so I assume there are more).as an example so I assume there are more).

What have Monks used when building an international website (with lots of traffic)?

Also, we do need to account for things like an office being closed for 2 hours around lunch, which seems to be handled by Date::Manip events, but I don't quite see that functionality elsewhere although it would seem not too hard to roll my own function to do that. Thanks y'all!

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Re: Best Date Module for i18n
by perrin (Chancellor) on Sep 06, 2006 at 20:13 UTC
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      Here is what the FAQ on that site says: 
      How do I do business week calculations?
TODO
      :)

      All other questions (besides a fiscal year begin date) that deal with business don't seem to be implemented. We most definitely need business and holiday functionality which DateTime doesn't seem to support. It does look like it knows a lot more about timezones and formats though.

      I will check it out a little more, thank.
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Re: Best Date Module for i18n
by kwaping (Priest) on Sep 06, 2006 at 20:57 UTC
    Check out Date::Calc.

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