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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le 15 juil. 2008 à 11:16, Scott Reynen a écrit : >> >> 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? > > For those who need to understand. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_era_name > > 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. > > It is mostly used by officials organizations like governments. > > For example this article in one of the main national newspapers: Yomiuri > > 「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 > > 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. > > > > -- > Karl Dubost - W3C > http://www.w3.org/QA/ > Be Strict To Be Cool > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > microformats-discuss@microformats.org > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
