Re: date parsing....

[Mark D. <mar...@jt...>]

We may want to offer an option. The calendar in XML Schema uses a
'proleptic' mechanism, whereby there is a zero year (the years are 2, 1,
0, -1, ... instead of 2AD, 1AD, 1BC, 2BC).

Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Liu" <ala...@jt...>
To: "eraser" <era...@ya...>; <ic...@os...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:29
Subject: Re: date parsing....


> For the Gregorian and Julian calendars (the only ones supported by icu4c
at this time), there is no year 0.  The sequence of years is:
>
>  ..., 2 BCE, 1 BCE, 1 CE, 2 CE,...
> or
>  ..., 2 BC, 1 BC, 1 AD, 2 AD,...
>
> I don't think anyone has had a chance to look at bug 1916 yet.
>
> Alan
>
> At 12:13 PM 5/29/2002 -0700, eraser wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have trouble parsing dates with the year 0... I
> >parse "0" and "0000" with the format "yy" and a
> >2DigitStartYear of 0... I think I should get the year
> >0, but the parse call fails.
> >
> >If I parse "00", I get the year 100!!?????
> >
> >Any idea?
> >
> >by the way... any news about the bug 1916?
> >
> >Thanks a lot.
> >
> >
> >Jeff Farley
> >
> >
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