[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] BC vs BCE era names

[Akash Mehta]

Well, the E should really be an option for political correctness, but
at the same time we can't force it upon users since there must be many
Christians out there who believe that 'before christ' is more
appropriate than 'before common era'. If there was an option in
preferences, and the <bc> / <ad> tags displayed the correct variation
appropriately it would be best.

On 9/5/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh yes, please stop that eternal useless bickering!
> I have never seen the use of adding another E to BC and give it another name
> when in fact you count with the same year numbering. But if we can have
> a technical solution so we can have both I'd go for it.
>
> Mgm
>
>
> On 9/5/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The vexed question may be solved by technical means!
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Neil Harris <neil at tonal.clara.co.uk>
> > Date: 05-Sep-2006 08:41
> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] BC vs BCE era names
> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at wikimedia.org>
> >
> >
> > Bill Clark wrote:
> > > I've added the ability to specify a preference (or no preference) for
> > > era names in dates (BC vs. BCE).  I've also fixed a couple bugs in the
> > > regular expressions that match for dates, that were preventing the
> > > parser from recognizing (and converting) dates that ended in BCE or
> > > which were written in ISO format and fell between -999-01-01 and
> > > 999-12-31 (i.e. had a one-, two-, or three-digit year).
> > >
> > > I'm not an actual committer so I'm submitting this as a diff -ru to
> > > the mailing list.  I'm sure that's the wrong procedure and I'll be
> > > scolded for it, but hey I'll learn.
> > >
> > > I've tested this and it works on my local version (checked out of svn
> > > a few hours ago) but I imagine it should be tested more.
> > >
> > > -Bill Clark
> > >
> > >
> > That's a great idea. It might also be useful to make the code also
> > switch 'AD' and 'CE', for dates such as, for example, 4 AD / 4 CE.
> >
> > -- Neil
> >
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