Summary
A simple module for converting dates from Gregorian to Discordian.
Overview
This is a very simple module which allows for conversion from normal dates (via 'time.time', 'time.localtime', etc.) to Discordian dates (a silly made-up dating system that divides a year into five seasons of 73 days each). The module can either be used as a standalone command line application (which prints the current date in Discordian form) or as a extension module.
Getting the software
The current version of discord is 1.0.
The latest version of the software is available in a tarball here: "http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/discord/discord-latest.tar.gz", http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/discord/discord-latest.tar.gz.
The official URL for this Web site is "http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/discord/", http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/discord/.
Requirements
This module requires Python 2.0 or greater.
License
This code is released under the "GPL", http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
Usage
The program can be run from the command line with simply::
./discord.py
which will print the current date. When used as a module, the 'discord.discord' function takes a 9-tuple of data representing the time (as returned by 'time.localtime', etc.) and returns a 5-tuple representing the Discordian date (the date only). The five elements of the returned tuple are:
**year** -- The current Discordian year.
**season** -- The Discordian season, indexing from 0.
**day** -- The day of the current season, indexing from 1.
**weekday** -- The current Discordian weekday, indexing from 0.
**tibs** -- A Boolean flag indicating whether or not today is Tib's Day (corresponding to Leap Day in the Gregorian calendar).
The 'discord.string' function takes one of these 5-tuples and returns it as a string representation.
Release history
- 1.0; 2003 Mar 18. Initial release.
Author
This module was written by "Erik Max Francis", http://www.alcyone.com/max/. If you use this software, have suggestions for future releases, or bug reports, "I'd love to hear about it", mailto:pyos@alcyone.com.
Version
Version 1.0 $Date: 2003/03/18 $ $Author: max $