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Bug 10198 - The Gregorian is not a Universal standard for calendars. HTML5 must provide ways for other calendar types. e.g. The "Hijri" calendar is used throughout in Arab countries. The "Persian" calendar is used in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The "Hebrew" calen
Summary: The Gregorian is not a Universal standard for calendars. HTML5 must provide w...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-07-18 12:42 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-12-08 19:49 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-07-18 12:42:54 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dates-and-times

Comment:
The Gregorian is not a Universal standard for calendars. HTML5 must provide
ways for other calendar types. e.g. The "Hijri" calendar is used throughout in
Arab countries. The "Persian" calendar is used in Iran, Afghanistan and
Pakistan. The "Hebrew" calendar is used by Jews. So HTML5 must provide room
for localization and internationalization of documents and web-pages.

Posted from: 119.153.156.222
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-08 06:38:09 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: We need a single format for the wire, doesn't much matter what it is. For the user, though, that's entirely up to the browser. That's indeed the whole point of the feature — to allow the browser to give the user calendar controls in their own locale.
Comment 2 Ms2ger 2011-12-08 19:08:12 UTC 
*** Bug 15110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Ms2ger 2011-12-08 19:49:48 UTC 
*** Bug 15110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***