I think the C.E./A.D. is in place to indicate which calendar system. Of course, drop-down lists would serve this end equally well.
Chuck Smith wrote: > 2007/2/28, Aphaia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 3/1/07, David Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> "A.D." should probably change to "C.E." before the date of birthday. >> I can understand your concerns, but C.E. is not so well known among >> non-native speakers. We could just remove it and put "YYYY-MM-DD" >> aside the form for avoiding confusion? > > A.D. is ridiculous here unless you plan to have some participants who > are over 2000 years old... I have this set up on my site using > drop-down lists for year and day, so people can't get confused about > which is which. > > Birthday -> Birthdate > > Best wishes, > Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
