- From: Michel Fortin <michel.fortin@michelf.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:43:57 -0400
Le 10 avr. 2006 ? 7:19, Henri Sivonen a ?crit : > I'm inclined to think that the best option for WF 2.0 is to require > the use of the proleptic Gregorian calendar all the way to 0001-01-01. What about prior dates? Should Web Forms use the astronomical convention which has the year zero or the historical one where there is no year zero? According to Wikipedia, year zero exists in ISO 8601:2004, so do negative years. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Dates> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering> Personally, I'd go proleptic Gregorian all the way with year zero and negative years. That shouldn't prevent a user agent from displaying the date using another calendar when appropriate. It could be misleading however when dating historical events or similar things. Maybe there should be a way to specify the calendar the date uses when it's not Gregorian. Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com http://www.michelf.com/
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