This group includes students of calendrics, historians, and even archeologists. The book provides a standard set of tools which organizes a large amount of calendric material in a systematic, automated way. The book corrects a number of errors in published texts, organizes calendric material, and provides a set of tools that may be used for research. The assistance of a programmer familiar with C would be required by anyone who wanted to use the routines themselves in novel ways. Few would see an advantage in designing, coding, debugging, and testing a Fast Fourier Transform routine, for example.
All human endeavor occurs in the context of time.
In many cases, this is true. Multiplicity of standards. Despite the use of scientific standards for defining time and a large degree of acceptance of these definitions for the purposes of commerce and technology, the actual use of date and time for ordinary daily social purposes varies considerably. Particular individuals solve particular aspects of particular problems. General solutions to common problems are often missing altogether, because no one has addressed them.