Hello, The English calendar prior to 1752 was a Julian calendar with the start of the year on 25th March. Samuel Pepys diary is an example of publishing that calendar online (I think): http://www.pepysdiary.com/
I imagine any historical date prior to the 20th Century is potentially a problem, as the Julian calendar was still in use as late as the 1920s in some parts of the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar has handy timelines and tables showing when the Gregorian calendar was adopted around the world, and when 1st January was adopted as the beginning of the year in various countries. TEI has some guidance on marking up historical dates, which might be relevant. http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/P4/html/CO.html#CONADA I don't know if there are any other online guides to encoding dates and times from different calendars. Jim Original Message: ----------------- From: Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:19:38 -0600 To: microformats-discuss@microformats.org Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Human and machine readable data format On [Jul 15], at [ Jul 15] 5:51 , Ciaran McNulty wrote: > Another example of non-Gregorian calendaring is Saudi Arabia, where > the arabic calendar is in common usage: > > http://www.sama.gov.sa/ Thanks Karl and Ciaran. I've added these examples to the wiki here: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar-brainstorming#Non-Gregorian_Calendars Please add any more examples you find so we can keep the discussion focused on what would help publishers. Peace, Scott _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss