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Hi Liam,
On 14-05-07 10:52 AM, Liam R E Quin liam@xxxxxx wrote: On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 23:50 +0000, Martin Holmes gtxxgm-xsl-list-2@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Yes, and even worse, the date of the beginning of the year varies even during the time when Julian is used in a single country. The other historical form commonly seen is to date events in terms of people, usually monarchs. E.g. 3 Geo III would be the third year of the reign of George III, although as far as I can tell the usual year end was employed, so that the years were measured in England (say) from April 1st, not from the coronation or accession date. Yes, we have regnal dates too. Our normal procedure is to mark them up as regnal dates, but supply TEI custom dating attributes specifying what they would be in Julian; then the automated conversion is able to supply proleptic Gregorian equivalents. All the conversions are intended only as helpful information; they can't usually be accurate, especially for dates in the first three months of the year, because of the difficulty of knowing what year-end the writer happened to be using. Older dates tagged as Julian also come in for the same conversion. You're right that it's ambiguous, though; this page: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar> shows a table in which 1BC Julian is equivalent to 1BC Gregorian, but it also appears to suggest that ISO 8601 is somehow equivalent to proleptic Gregorian. The resource we use most is: Cheney, C.R. 2000. A Handbook of Dates for students of British history. Revised by Michael Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. It's wonderfully detailed and unexpectedly enjoyable to read. Cheers, Martin
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