Jc3s5h added a comment. In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95425#1602763, @daniel wrote in part:
> @thiemowmde for the same reason 1964 with the precision set to century will > be rendered as 20th century, not 1964+/-50. If you want a solution to be analogous to the way time is handled, then you need to fix time first. I think it would be a mistake to even think about time for this purpose because it's going to take time to fix time. As an example of what's wrong with time, the user interface does not allow entering time zone. Apparently, the bots that add birth and death dates took their cue from the user interface, and didn't add it. So every birth or death date with a precision of 1 day is wrong, except for those people who were born when and where the time zone offset was 0, such as the United Kingdom in winter. Time and other measurements are different from each other in the way people think about them. For example, if I have a credit card that's 85 mm long from Hartford CT to London, it's still 85 mm long. If I go to a bar in New Zealand at 2 pm Sept 4, and show my passport showing I was born in Connecticut USA on Sept 4, 1997, the bartender will serve me even though it isn't September 4 yet in Connecticut. So I think we are going to need different approaches for time and other quantities. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95425 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Jc3s5h Cc: Addshore, Lydia_Pintscher, Jc3s5h, Snipre, mgrabovsky, daniel, thiemowmde, Aklapper, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Malyacko _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
