The output of Date.prototype.toLocaleString and DateTimeFormat.prototype.format is also intended for normal people, not for techies. So why should we introduce a year 0 for them?
Norbert On Sep 13, 2012, at 13:31 , Mark Davis ☕ wrote: > In ICU, we are using Gregorian eras (AD/BC) as customarily interpreted, and > there is no year zero. There isn't a simple way to get non-era years—and that > form is mostly interesting to techies, not normal people, which is why we > support the era form. > > (If someone wanted to do it, you could probably get reasonable results by > taking the input date, parsing with a calendar, and if the year < 1, set the > year field to 1-year, get the date pattern for the locale, get the number > pattern for a negative integer in the locale, insert the prefix/suffix around > the year field in the date pattern, and format the Calendar date. That's be a > dozen or two lines of code, but would need some extra code for exceptions.) > > Mark > > — Il meglio è l’inimico del bene — > > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Norbert Lindenberg > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 13, 2012, at 6:55 , Andrew Paprocki wrote: > > >>>> and Explorer formats it as being in the year 1 BC. Safari calculates the > >>>> day > >>>> according to the Julian calendar, all others use the proleptic Gregorian > >>>> calendar. > > > > That is very surprising to me. Can anyone comment on why Safari chose > > that implementation? > > Probably because that's the default used for date and time formatting in ICU. > ICU can be made to use a proleptic calendar by setting the Gregorian cutover > to the beginning of time; I don't see an easy way to make it introduce a year > 0. > > Norbert > > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
