[Bug 17638] New: This type assumes a Gregorian calendar. Either this should be explicit called out here, or this type should be rethought to be more inclusive of the Hebrew and Arabic civil calendars. The step function for example is by whole months from January 1970. Wit

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17638

           Summary: This type assumes a Gregorian calendar. Either this
                    should be explicit called out here, or this type
                    should be rethought to be more inclusive of the Hebrew
                    and Arabic civil calendars. The step function for
                    example is by whole months from January 1970. Wit
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#mon
                    th-state-(type=month)
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: other Hixie drafts (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org


Specification:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#month-state-(type=month)
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#month-state-(type=month)

Comment:
This type assumes a Gregorian calendar. Either this should be explicit called
out here, or this type should be rethought to be more inclusive of the Hebrew
and Arabic civil calendars. The step function for example is by whole months
from January 1970. Without knowing the calendar type, you cannot validly
return the number of months between January 1970 (Gregorian) and some month in
the Hebrew calendar. The new year starts at a different point in the year, or
sometimes there are 2 Hebrew new years within one Gregorian year. Perhaps an
optional "calendar" attribute on the input tag as well with a list of possible
values like "gregorian" (default), "hebrew", "arabic", and "chinese".

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