[Bug 28863] New: HTML5 spec, 2.4.5.7 Remove comment in source code and make a note or something similar

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28863

            Bug ID: 28863
           Summary: HTML5 spec, 2.4.5.7 Remove comment in source code and
                    make a note or something similar
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec
          Assignee: dave.null@w3.org
          Reporter: stefan@duckflight.de
        QA Contact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-admin@w3.org,
                    public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org

Dear editors,

a comment in the source code says, you don't know, if Nero's birth date is
given in Julian or Gregorian calendar. So please don't state it as a fact which
might be taken over by others. Otherwise we come to the age of internet
falsedom, a growing weed where something written from an "authority" is taken
as the truth without checking properly. Facebook or Twitter would be fine for
that.

Say either: if it would be Julian, it would be like that in Gregorian, or if it
would be in Gregorian, it would be like that in Julian. So go both ways and you
might find someone in the history department, who can put it right for the next
edition.

Or use the emperor "Nelix from Galactix" as an obvious fiction figure and make
up a birth date in the Julian calendar and translate it into Gregorian.

Yeah, I know it might not be a big thing, but I also count the peas that I put
into my soup. ;-)

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Received on Monday, 29 June 2015 09:08:27 UTC