Jc3s5h added a subscriber: Jc3s5h. Jc3s5h added a comment. In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85324#996337, @Addshore wrote:
> 2011-4-19 is clearly the 19th of April 2011, so why not parse this too? Yes, 2014-4-19 is pretty clearly the 19th of April 2011. But the string "2011-4-19" does not follow any standard, it is just a format invented by some use on some occasion. So at some undefined point in the past, the meaning becomes unclear. The new parser would have to contain some date to divide between clear dates, which would be accepted, and unclear dates, which would be rejected. What should that date be? Perhaps 1 March 1923, which is, I believe, the last date a country changed from the combination of the Julian calendar and AD/BC year notation to the Gregorian calendar and AD/BC year notation. Other countries have changed since, but the preceding calendar either wasn't Julian or didn't use AD/BC year notation. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85324 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Jc3s5h Cc: Jc3s5h, Addshore, Revi, thiemowmde, Kwj2772, JeroenDeDauw, Aklapper, daniel, Wikidata-bugs, aude _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs