Re: [VCARDDAV] Non-Gregorian Calscales?
Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Fri, 13 September 2013 13:53 UTC
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:53:43 -0400
From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] Non-Gregorian Calscales?
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Hi Filip, --On September 13, 2013 at 9:16:22 AM +0200 Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com> wrote: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-daboo-icalendar-rscale-01 refers to > Unicode BCP47 for possible values and there's pretty good rationale for > using that. > > http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/bcp47/calendar.xml Yes that is correct. However, note that the rscale draft does not address the issue of any changes to the actual date format itself, since it only describes how recurrence rule patterns can be applied in a different calscale (the actual date/time represzentation in iCalendar remains as Gregorian). A proper implementation of non-Gregorian date/time values will need to re-define what the format of the date value is. I don't believe ISO-8601 covers all the possibilities (for example Japanese calendars require an "era" element). -- Cyrus Daboo
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- Re: [VCARDDAV] Non-Gregorian Calscales? DataPacRat