Re: [VCARDDAV] Non-gregorian dates

["Andy Mabbett" <[e-mail]>]

The "Extended Date/Time Formats" efforts:

   http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/

may be relevant here.


On Sun, January 17, 2010 23:25, Cyrus Daboo wrote:

> I have heard from a number of people who would like to specify
> non-Gregorian dates (and partial dates) in vCard properties. Whilst I do
> not proposed we add explicit support for that in vCard 4, I would suggest
> we follow the iCalendar approach and define a CALSCALE parameter that can
> be used on any property that includes a date value (either a DATE/DATETIME
> value type or TEXT). That parameter would be defined with a single value,
> "GREGORIAN", which would be the default if is in not present. We would add
> an IANA registry for new values. We would need to add a requirement for
> clients about how to deal with CALSCALE values they do not recognize -
> basically ignore the property or treat it as text.
> [...]

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