Re: different calendar systems - i18n

[email protected] wrote:

>
> Doug wrote on 09/19/2003 08:48:31 PM:
> > I got the point and I agree. I know nothing about 'Yahrtzeit' or a
> > Jewish calendar.
> >
> > If a 'jalali' RFC were published with the rules and given that fact 
> that
> > 'YEARLY' is NOT defined to mean
> > every 365 days. Why would not 'YEARY' in a 'jalali' calendar, do the
> > correct 'jalali' math
> > to produce the correct dates? Or are you saying that YEARLY (or
> > whatever) will not ever work?
>
> There are other GREGORIAN 'biases' in the current Recurrence Rule we 
> have in iCalendar.  Stuff like the days in the month, the number of 
> months in the year, the weekday _names_, etc.  As such its not a 
> simple matter to just define another CALSCALE property value and be 
> done with it.

When someone publishes the details for a new CALSCALE value then the 
debate will have meaning.
Until then everyone seems to be saying  that we can only guess and I agree.



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