Thanks Josiah for these informative comments! On Monday, April 13, 2020 at 11:44:45 AM UTC+4:30, TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > Ciao Mohammad > > I think this is a fascinating topic where computer science meets social > behaviour. A little while ago there was a related interesting thread ... > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/YaFzHXfjnFc/Rhkybx0BAQAJ > > That thread was concerned with date RANGES in TW standard date mechanism > (it only works from 1899 11 30 00:00:00.00 on in Gregorian). > > Regarding your OP, its worth mentioning that accurate historical dating > that goes back a long, long way is more needed by astronomers than > historians or social scientists. > > The modern concept of date recording becomes less workable the further you > go back in time. In pre-industrial revolution societies every century back > "universal" dates become rarer. Mainly used on official documents. > Otherwise date recording conforms more to local perception of agricultural > peasants--I.e. based on empirical observation of crop cycles. > > The meaning here is: better dating in TW would be good but only necessary > back far enough with accuracy for practical aims. > > Just comments. > TT > > Regarding > On Monday, 13 April 2020 08:04:51 UTC+2, Mohammad wrote: >> >> While Georgian calendar system is the most dominant around the word and >> Tiddlywiki also use it, >> there are other calendar system used around the world like Jalaali (solar >> system), Hijri, Hebrew, Chinese and ... >> see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_calendars >> >> This thread discuss the possible method to add/implement such calendar >> system to Tiddlywiki. >> >> Reference: >> >> 1. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/meN6nSlvyhw/hkOoD5W0AgAJ >> 2. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/0jIuCjeK-zA/XudxYAlLAgAJ >> >> >> >>
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