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Introduction

I'm trying to pull together and write a program that recreates what is available but with a twist. It is a calendar program that; 1) will get all my various calendars in Google and my personal computer, code them and display them for me, 2) will print out the date using a number of different calendar systems from around the world, proposed of from fiction. The reason is to help me to learn python but also from the mid 1980s when I had a script on a cron job that would print out my schedule and desired tasks/projects for the day as I got to work and tried to make it fancy by using other calendar systems and Greenwich Mean Time. Used GMT at work since I had to do decay calculations and the switch to and from Daylight Savings Time would add errors in the calculations before the vendor built in conversions.

I envision that I'll use it in several ways;

• As part of a cron job to print/display my appointment and task/project calendar for me (I'm retired so days tend to blur together without the imposition of events
• A screen saver to help while I'm working around the house doing things
• to help consolidate my various calendars. I have a number with different functions on Google and my main workstation
• to help me with date and time as I communicate with friends around the world
• for the fun of it - using Stardate, Shire calendar and others

As I search the internet I have found a lot of python code to convert date and times between various calendars that are open source so I'll note source of the code for all the various modules while adding my own for calendars which don't already have code.