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Contents 1 Missing space 2 ISO8601 3 Hindu calendars: Vikram Samvat 4 Holocene calendar 5 A mistake in the Islamic calendar? 6 Julian Calendar 7 Chinese calender 8 Thai solar calendar 9 Long Count? 10 Request 11 En dash spaces 12 Bengali Calendar 13 Heisei 22

[edit] Missing space

There is a space missing between the year and the word "in" in the box title. How can I fix this?--BozMo talk 07:25, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] ISO8601

Because there was no year "0", ISO8601 renders, say, 3 BC as "-0002". Could instances of this template for BC-era years therefore have a row for such conversions? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 22:02, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hindu calendars: Vikram Samvat

New Year 2066 (Vikram Samvat) began on 14 April 2009 (Gregorian calendar). Therefore, 2065 – 2066 (Vikram Samvat) are correct for 2009 (Gregorian calendar), not 2064 – 2065! This also applies to other years on the Gregorian calendar. For example, 2064 – 2065 in 2008 and 2066 – 2067 in 2010. Please, correct this years (Vikram Samvat) in Template:Year in other calendars for all years (Gregorian calendar). Thanks! James Michael 1 (talk) 10:02, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Holocene calendar

this isn't a real calendar, please remove

[edit] A mistake in the Islamic calendar?

I feel that a "conceptual" mistake concerns the Islamic years: before 622 they are written with digits + BH (I suppose "Before Hijra"). But as far as I know, in the Islamic world there does not exist anything like the Christian "BC". Even in historical texts written by muslims I only find dates according to the Common Era, but never "Before Hijra". For Muslims, the time before Hijra is jahiliyyah ("ignorance [of the revelation]"), and it has no sense to speak of such times in a historical way. So, I feel that for every year preceding 622 this template should not calculate negative dates, but simply show one and the same word jahiliyyah. --Vermondo (talk) 19:04, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Moreover, I see that this template calculates years in the "Islamic" way (i.e. shorter than solar years) even before Hijra, while, before the revelation, the years were (probably) regulated on the sun and not on the moon (in the same way of the Jewish calendar). I feel that even Muslim scholars would be puzzled about the "right" way to calculate such dates. This pitfall shows how improper is trying to extend the Islamic calendar back before its creation. The only solution is writing "jahiliyya" and that's all ;-) --Vermondo (talk) 19:15, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Similar problem with the Iranian calendar. What should we do with such calendars, which have a sense "after" their beginning but none "before"? I think that forcing them to express "negative" years is inappropriate and probabily mistaken --Vermondo (talk) 11:59, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Julian Calendar

The Julian calendar is very important for anything relating to Western history prior to the 16th century. I am quite surprised it is not in this template. IBstupid (talk) 04:56, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese calender

The conversion in the template is complicated enough, but it is supported by over 4000 templates (over 2% of all Wikipedia's templates). Can someone point me to an explanation or table of the conversion/intercaluary months etc.? Rich Farmbrough, 13:00, 8 June 2009 (UTC).

[edit] Thai solar calendar

Thai solar calendar year for AD 1782 given as 2325, but this is an anachronism. The Siamese solar calendar was first adopted in AD 1888 with 6 April as its New Year's Day and 6 April 1782 as its epoch (reference date), retroactively making 6 April 1782 6 April Year 1 of the Bangkok Era. In AD 1912, New Year's Day was moved back to 1 April and year counting changed to a Buddhist Era (BE) reckoned as having had an epochal year 0 from 11 March 545 BC, believed to be the date of the death of Gautama Buddha. In AD 1941, New Year's Day moved back to 1 January, making conversion from AD to BE a simple matter of adding 543. The country's name also changed from Siam to Thailand, marking the advent of the Thai solar calendar.Pawyilee (talk) 14:13, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Long Count?

Room could be made for the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, e.g. 2009 would be 12.19.15.x.x -- 12.19.16.x.x baed on [1] EamonnPKeane (talk) 22:50, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Request

{{editprotected}} Just wondering if tnavbar could be changed to navbar to avoid an extra redirect? Similar to what was done with Navbox -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:45, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Y Done Matthewedwards :  Chat  16:57, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] En dash spaces

WP:ENDASH says "Spacing: All disjunctive en dashes are unspaced, except when there is a space within either one or both of the items (the New York – Sydney flight; the New Zealand – South Africa grand final; June 3, 1888 – August 18, 1940, but June–August 1940)." In this template, for instance, Islamic calendar 847 – 848 should be Islamic calendar 847–848
Unfortunately, that only works for positive numbers. WP:ENDASH also says "The word to, rather than an en dash, is used when a number range involves a negative value or might be misconstrued as a subtraction (−3 to 1, not −3–1)." Simply removing the spaces from Bahá'í calendar -400 – -399 makes it the unreadable Bahá'í calendar -400–-399
The minus signs shouldn't be hyphens (MOS:NUM#Common mathematical symbols) but fixing that doesn't create a readable result either: Bahá'í calendar −400–−399
So the ideal solution would be to remove the en dash spaces only for positive numbers, and perhaps to do something else for negative numbers. I've changed some of the printable characters in other templates, but changing your "if" statements is beyond my WP:BOLDness level at this point. So I'm leaving it as is for now. Art LaPella (talk) 02:29, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bengali Calendar

I am trying to add the Bengali/Bangla calendar but unfortunately I am not sure how to write the code for it. Its actually very simple, Gregorian year -593 years (so it is currently 1416). I think the code is something like:

|- | [[Bengali calendar]] | {{ #expr: {{{year|<noinclude>{{CURRENTYEAR}}</noinclude><includeonly>{{PAGENAME}}</includeonly>}}}-593 }} |-

(I copied it from one of the other entries and changed the number, so its probably not completely correct) --Reahad (talk) 01:40, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Heisei 22

(copied from Talk:2010#Heisei 22)

It is not sure that 2010 will be part of the Heisei Period --82.134.154.25 (talk) 17:49, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

I agree. The problem is in the template. Please discuss at Template talk:Year in other calendars. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 20:22, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

I think that this template should be adjusted so as not to display the Japanese calendar for future years. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 20:24, 3 November 2009 (UTC)