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.


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