Sounds like we're converging on a proleptic Gregorian calendar with no year 0. Any objections?
Thanks, Norbert On Sep 13, 2012, at 15:48 , Mark Davis ☕ wrote: > I really was not very clear about what I think; sorry for rambling a bit. > > Yes, I agree that the best result for Gregorian is to have correct era > support, which means there is no year zero: you have 2 AD, 1 AD, 1 BC, 2 > BC,... > > Mark > > — Il meglio è l’inimico del bene — > > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Norbert Lindenberg > <[email protected]> wrote: > The output of Date.prototype.toLocaleString and > DateTimeFormat.prototype.format is also intended for normal people, not for > techies. So why should we introduce a year 0 for them? > > Norbert > > > On Sep 13, 2012, at 13:31 , Mark Davis ☕ wrote: > > > In ICU, we are using Gregorian eras (AD/BC) as customarily interpreted, and > > there is no year zero. There isn't a simple way to get non-era years—and > > that form is mostly interesting to techies, not normal people, which is why > > we support the era form. > > > > (If someone wanted to do it, you could probably get reasonable results by > > taking the input date, parsing with a calendar, and if the year < 1, set > > the year field to 1-year, get the date pattern for the locale, get the > > number pattern for a negative integer in the locale, insert the > > prefix/suffix around the year field in the date pattern, and format the > > Calendar date. That's be a dozen or two lines of code, but would need some > > extra code for exceptions.) > > > > Mark > > > > — Il meglio è l’inimico del bene — > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Norbert Lindenberg > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sep 13, 2012, at 6:55 , Andrew Paprocki wrote: > > > > >>>> and Explorer formats it as being in the year 1 BC. Safari calculates > > >>>> the day > > >>>> according to the Julian calendar, all others use the proleptic > > >>>> Gregorian > > >>>> calendar. > > > > > > That is very surprising to me. Can anyone comment on why Safari chose > > > that implementation? > > > > Probably because that's the default used for date and time formatting in > > ICU. ICU can be made to use a proleptic calendar by setting the Gregorian > > cutover to the beginning of time; I don't see an easy way to make it > > introduce a year 0. > > > > Norbert > > > > > > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
