[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 144699] Use proleptic Gregorian consistently for *all* date formatting and recognition

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144699

--- Comment #3 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #2)
> > * gregorian: Gregorian calendar with cut-off date 1582-10-04, 1582-10-15
> > following. Dates before cut-off date are calculated in Julian proleptic
> > calendar [ISO8601], Section 2.4.1. 

By the way: what the hell is "[ISO8601], Section 2.4.1"? The ODF standard
refers to ISO 8601:2004; and in that standard, there were *no* section 2.4.1
(or 2.4, for that matter). It included three occurrences of "Julian":

> 2.2.15
> Gregorian calendar
> calendar in general use, introduced in 1582 to define a calendar year that
> more closely approximated the tropical year than the Julian calendar
> ...
> 3.2.1 The Gregorian calendar
> ...
> The introduction of the Gregorian calendar included the cancellation of the
> accumulated inaccuracies of the Julian calendar. However, no dates shall be
> inserted or deleted when determining dates in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
> ...
> EXAMPLE The Gregorian calendar was introduced on 15 October 1582. In the
> calendar set by this standard the calendar day preceding that calendar day
> is referred to as 14 October 1582. In the Julian calendar that calendar
> day is referred to as 4 October 1582.

Is the reference to "Julian proleptic calendar" in ODF an error? Is the
reference to the specific standard/pert of the standard an error?

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