- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:56:24 +0300
On Aug 16, 2006, at 06:33, mozer wrote: > A lot of work as already been done by the W3C XSL WG on calendar > (and even negative year in needed) > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#lang-cal-country The first sentence reads: "The set of languages, calendars, and countries that are supported in the date formatting functions is implementation-defined." "Implementation-defined" is a fancy way of saying "the committee couldn't agree on a realistic interoperable solution". Good luck researching country-specific Julian/Gregorian roll-over dates and new year rules. The current country codes don't cover for example Venice adopting the modern new year rule at a different time than Rome. And good luck supporting calendars that even ICU doesn't know about. Non-Gregorian calendars are a huge can of worms. Let's put the lid back on right away. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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