Thanks, all. I would probably go for the "leave the past documents unchanged
for the sake of immutability and simply include the dates in future versions"
at this time.
If we wanted to do something different in the future, the approach of making a
1.7.1 branch from the 1.7.0 tag sounds very
Dear @davidhassell et al.
I will produce some text synthesising the comments made since the current pull
request was written.
Since then, the preamble on calendars has been modified as a result of the
agreement of [issue 313 on leap
A `strict_gregorian` calendar would be one which is Gregorian and *must not* be
used before 1582 i.e. that would be an error, whereas `proleptic_gregorian` can
be used both before and after 1582 without error or warning - that is the point
of it. However, I am not in favour of
It looks like a consensus solution has emerged:
* The `gregorian` calendar is deprecated.
* The default calendar is redefined as `standard` alone.
* The `noleap` and `all_leap` calendars are both redefined to be modifications
of the proleptic gregorian calendar.
Does that sound right?
This is fine, thanks. If we agree, I suppose that we need to write propose some
textual changes in the CF documents for some of these points.
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Dear all
I have drafted a new version of the affected parts of the text of Sect 4.4,
taking account of the comments made since the pull request was revised, mostly
as suggested but not quite, as follows:
* I included the deprecation of `gregorian` from [issue
