[HN Gopher] Generate Unicode Calendars for Markdown ___________________________________________________________________ Generate Unicode Calendars for Markdown Author : nabeards Score : 76 points Date : 2021-10-13 17:06 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (qwerty.dev) (TXT) w3m dump (qwerty.dev) | fauria wrote: | Being this a _Unicode_ calendar generator, notice that according | to the internacional standard ISO 8601 Monday is the first day of | the week. | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 | dhosek wrote: | The definition of Monday as the first day of the week is | strictly for the sake of week numbering over the course of the | year and does not indicate that a calendar which displays weeks | starting with Sunday violates the ISO standard. | lifthrasiir wrote: | ISO 8601 is not related to Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646), but if you | do care about Unicode you may notice that Unicode CLDR actually | supports the preferred first day of the week as a part of | locale identifiers [1] (e.g. en-US-u-fw-mon will make the first | day of the week Monday, as opposed to the default Sunday for | USA). | | [1] | https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#UnicodeFirstDayIdentif... | psd1 wrote: | Yep, making Sunday the zero'th day. | radomir_cernoch wrote: | This comment made my day. :-) | fauria wrote: | :) Nice try, but I'm afraid none of the data elements related | to dates are zero-indexed (ie month 0, week 0, year 0, etc) | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero | | update: technically year 0 in ISO 8601 corresponds to year 1 | BC | aloisdg wrote: | There is a bug. October has 31 days, but the generated calendar | have 30 days. Since the website doesn't seems to be open source, | I cant fix it. | jfk13 wrote: | And February 2021 only had 27 days, apparently... hmm. | MrOxiMoron wrote: | On Firefox for android they don't render that great, the first | row is misaligned and the day indicator is all over the place. | cgijoe wrote: | This has nothing to do with Markdown. Was that word included for | SEO or something? Perhaps a better title would be "ASCII Art | Calendars". | mikestew wrote: | "markdown" is not to be found on the page, so it's not for SEO; | the submitter (incorrectly) editorialized the title. It's also | not restricted to ASCII, so your suggestion does not increase | title accuracy. | JamesCoyne wrote: | heh. If you overflow the date past the past about year +/- 250000 | you break the website and it has to be reloaded (in Firefox at | least) | sambeau wrote: | This is a lovely little project but it makes no claims to be for | markdown--the site makes no mention of it as far as I can see. | And, of course these fun unicode calendars don't render in | Markdown. | | Can we change the title back to "Unicode Calendar Generator"? | eevilspock wrote: | Not only that, the _copy to clipboard_ function produces text | that DOES NOT render correctly when pasted into a Markdown doc. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-10-13 23:00 UTC)