[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] BC vs BCE era names

Tue Sep 5 09:37:54 UTC 2006

Oh yes, please stop that eternal useless bickering!
I have never seen the use of adding another E to BC and give it another name
when in fact you count with the same year numbering. But if we can have
a technical solution so we can have both I'd go for it.

Mgm

On 9/5/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The vexed question may be solved by technical means!
>
>
> - d.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Neil Harris <neil at tonal.clara.co.uk>
> Date: 05-Sep-2006 08:41
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] BC vs BCE era names
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Bill Clark wrote:
> > I've added the ability to specify a preference (or no preference) for
> > era names in dates (BC vs. BCE).  I've also fixed a couple bugs in the
> > regular expressions that match for dates, that were preventing the
> > parser from recognizing (and converting) dates that ended in BCE or
> > which were written in ISO format and fell between -999-01-01 and
> > 999-12-31 (i.e. had a one-, two-, or three-digit year).
> >
> > I'm not an actual committer so I'm submitting this as a diff -ru to
> > the mailing list.  I'm sure that's the wrong procedure and I'll be
> > scolded for it, but hey I'll learn.
> >
> > I've tested this and it works on my local version (checked out of svn
> > a few hours ago) but I imagine it should be tested more.
> >
> > -Bill Clark
> >
> >
> That's a great idea. It might also be useful to make the code also
> switch 'AD' and 'CE', for dates such as, for example, 4 AD / 4 CE.
>
> -- Neil
>
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