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Japanese Era name change and named vs. numbered era date.
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki at linet dot gr dot jp>, Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:33:26 -0500
- Subject: Japanese Era name change and named vs. numbered era date.
TAMUKI-san,
Is it important to describe the first era year as "元"
versus "1"? Or to allow the user to control this?
This particular issue was raised as a Java issue, where
"Gy" via DateTimeFormatter can print [Era name][Era year],
but does so with [Era year] as a number (arabic numeral).
I don't know how you would implement such an alternative
because it would require enumerating all of the possible
non-arabic-numeral alternatives. It would be an interesting
addition, but I'm not sure it is valuable to do it this way.
Thoughts?
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Cheers,
Carlos.