[uf-discuss] Human and machine readable data format

[Ciaran McNulty]

Another example of non-Gregorian calendaring is Saudi Arabia, where
the arabic calendar is in common usage:

http://www.sama.gov.sa/

(actually clicking the 'english' tab on that page shows the gregorian dates)

-Ciaran McNulty

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Karl Dubost <karl at w3.org> wrote:
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> Le 15 juil. 2008 à 11:16, Scott Reynen a écrit :
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>> Do you have any examples of the non-Gregorian dates being published
>> online?  Or any examples of applications that can take non-Gregorian dates
>> as input?
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> For those who need to understand.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_era_name
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> The era system is very common on paper form, and on labels in supermarket at
> least (for those I have noticed in my daily life in Japan). In fact it is a
> mix, it is not regular. Some forms have even the possibility to deal with
> the two systems.
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> It is mostly used by officials organizations like governments.
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> For example this article in one of the main national newspapers: Yomiuri
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> 「平成20年度（第１回）超長期住宅先導的モデル事業の採択事業」
> http://home.yomiuri.co.jp/wnews/20080711hg03.htm
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> 平成20年 - this is the year 20 of Heisei Era.
> The sentence says the project started at this date. You will notice that the
> article has also dates in gregorian calendar, so it mixes both.
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