Closed Bug 478066 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Handle BC dates

Categories

(Mozilla Labs :: Operator, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: mkaply, Assigned: mkaply)

References

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Details

Are you aware that, for BC dates such as:

       <span class="vevent">
          <span class="dtstart">
             <span class="summary">-0321</span>
          </span>
       </span>

Operator is emitting a Dtstart value of 0321?
hCalendar uses ISO 8601 for its date notation, specifically the <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/iso-8601">RFC 3339 profile</a>, which: "explicitly excludes durations and dates before the common era". In other words, it doesn't support events from before the CE, so Operator can't either.

This means this isn't a bug in Operator, but rather one in the Wikipedia software which adds dtstart and dtend when it shouldn't.
Won't fix.

http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar-issues-closed#historical-dates
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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