Gentlemen:
Yet another revision--sorry for sending so many files. I did more research.
Markus, the AM/PM convention is used regularly in written communication
only in America, Korea, Poland, Russia, and Chinese-speaking nations.
Everywhere else, 24-hour notation is the rule in written
communication--and written communication is all that need concern us in
a wiki.
I still have the problem of distinguishing between am for /ante
meridiem/ and AM for /Anno Mundi/. I propose that in English one browse
for a lowercase "am" for a time annotation and an uppercase "AM" for
calendar selection. This applies everywhere except in Russian. In
Russian, the equivalents of am/pm are пн/пд, whereas the /Anno Mundi/
abbreviation is АМ, which looks like a Roman "A" and "M" but, I suspect,
is different in Unicode.
Korean presents a special problem; see
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country#Korea_.28South.29>
for details. Basically, the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second
are all suffixed. The unique am/pm indicators /precede/ the time.
12-hour conventions apply in Korean writing. All of this strongly
indicates that a special set of regexes will be required for Korean at
least, and possibly also for every other language.
Chinese does the same thing as does Korean, or sometimes Chinese uses
typical ISO8601 separators. I suspect that our new calendar system
should support both. See
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country#Greater_China>
for full particulars.
Note: I have found no clue yet to Korean or Chinese notational
equivalents of the English AD, BC, CE, or BCE, except that 公元 means CE
in Chinese. Chinese also has AM and PM equivalents.
Temlakos
Date and time conventions in various languages:
Deutsch English Español Français Italiano Korean Polski Português
Ð ÑÑÑкий Chinese
AC BC a. C av. J.-C. a.C. p.c. a.C. ÐÐ¥
AD AD d. C ap. J.-C. d.C. a.d. d.C. РХ
v.u.Z. CE EC EC e.v. n.e. EC нÑ
å
Œ
v.d.Z. BCE AEC BCE a.e.v p.n.e. AEC
a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. пн
p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. пд
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