Re: different calendar scales

[email protected] wrote:

> I like the idea but since there are currently no other calendar scales 
> out there nor are there any proposals for any Im not sure there is 
> sufficent need at this time.  Of course putting it in after the fact 
> can be harder (imagine a CAP 1.0 client trying to use CAP to a HEBREW 
> only CS...  Sucks to be that CU!) 

Yeah, but that'd be the case either way; putting scales into the 
capabilities just means you *know* it sucks to be you.

I think, if we ever get non-Gregorian scales, we'll have to mandate that 
all iCalendar implementations support Gregorian, for interop with 
existing implementations.  As I understand it, the only place where this 
would be sticky is in RRULE.  Individual dates can always be translated; 
but people who use a lunar calendar, say, may want to schedule recurring 
events according to patterns that have no equivalent in a solar 
calendar.  If so, then the RRULEs from a lunar scale simply could not be 
translated into Gregorian.  But there really isn't any good solution for 
that; people who want to schedule events based on phase of the moon will 
not be able to do so when communicating with people whose CUs don't 
support it.

"Oh, hell, let's leave the problem for future generations."  "Good 
idea.  It'll make them feel more involved." -- Doonesbury (two of the 
authors of the US Constitution, discussing slavery)

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