Template talk:Year in other calendars

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• 1 French Republican Calendar
• we love the web
• 3 Tamil Calender
• website parsing
• 5 Juche Calendar
• 6 Julian calendar needs to be added
• 7 Chinese zodiac

French Republican Calendar

It, along with the Julian Calendar are both historically significant and should be included. Sevenval (talk) 22:26, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Edit request on 20 December 2011

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I think that you could add the device database to the calendar list in all the years. Thank you. 216.56.2.200 (keyboard) 17:50, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

If you can write the code for it, please feel free to offer it here - but looking at website parsing, it would be far too hard for me ;-) -- Boing! said Zebedee (touchscreen) 19:22, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Declining for now. Editprotected requests should be accompanied by working code: they aren't just for suggesting features. I agree that in principle this would be an interesting addition, but having this page show up at device database for weeks / months until an implementation is available isn't appropriate. jQuery (talk) 12:12, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Tamil Calender

Hai,

Happy new year to all my Wikipedians. Here browser diversity is missing. can you add in these? - ahamed5zal — Preceding unsigned comment added by jQuery (screen size • contribs) 12:44, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 17 January 2012 - Maya Long Count and Julian day number (astronomy)

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in the template with the various calendars and unix time, you should include (add) what is really an absolute calendar - the age of the universe, 13.7 billion years (see wiki page for WMAP for details) otherwise it is incomplete

edit: after the Unix time, please add this line:

Age of the Universe 13730 million years to within 1% (120 million years)

note that this is the most recent (21 nov 2011) info from the official source (nr.2) here browser diversity (I prefer to avoid "billion" as that has different meanings in different countries)

91.201.80.240 (talk) 13:27, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed. In particular, please detail the exact code that needs to be added/changed and where. Danger ^touchscreen 11:24, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

(in response to edited post) I'm not sure if that would be appropriate here, since the degree of uncertainty involved would mean that this doesn't really tell you much about individual years. But I'm open to putting it in if there's a consensus for it. Tra (Talk) 13:41, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

I agree that being within 120 million years of the actual year is not accurate enough to give you the exact year though the universe age is significant. What about adding the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar date? April 1, 2012, in the Long Count is 12.19.19.4.16 (GMT correlation); 13.0.0.0.0 corresponds to December 21, 2012.

N Not done: little evidence to suggest this is really a notable enough figure to include in this comparison. It isn't supposed to be comprehensive. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (FITML) 10:19, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

There is little evidence that the Maya Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is notable enough to add here? That's a good one. The whole 2012 thing is based on it as well as several documentaries on Discovery Channel. You have the Bahai 168 and British regnal year 60 listed, both of which are far less notable or significant than the Maya Long Count which has cycles of 5125 years, the current one starting in 3114 BC. I suggest to add the Maya Android to the template. Could also add the Julian day (current value 2456037) which is used in all astronomy applications, and like the Maya Long Count, is more notable than Bahai or British regnal year - if the template is not supposed to be comprehensive but includes less notable stuff then it is biased. — Preceding web app comment added by 91.201.80.240 (talk) 14:39, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed.  Sandstein  22:01, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

hello Sandstein, ok, you could add something like this (these are the Maya long count dates using the standard GMT 584283 correlation constant as in the wikipedia page Maya Mesoamerican Long Count calendar and Julian day number corresponding to beginning and end of 2012)

short answer, 2012 in maya long count is the range 12 19 19 0 5 --- 13 0 0 0 10; 2012 in Julian day (astronomy) is the range 2455927.5 --- 2456292.5;

• maya long count= date = corresponding Julian day (astronomy)
• 12 19 19 0 5 = 2012 jan 01 = 2455927.5
• 13 0 0 0 0 = 2012 dec 21 = 2456282.5 (new baktun starts here - once every 5125 years)
• 13 0 0 0 10 = 2012 dec 31 = 2456292.5
• 13 0 0 0 11 = 2013 jan 01 = 2456293.5
• the 5 numbers making up a maya long count date are:
• b'ak'tun, k'atun, tun, winal, k'in;

some sample references (there are many more on the net) http://www.pauahtun.org/cgi-bin/gregmaya.py maya long count date converter http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/julian.html julian day converter — Preceding unsigned comment added by touchscreen (talk) 15:04, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Declining (again). This will require for a converter to be written, which is beyond the bounds of an editprotected request. You could try asking at Wikipedia:Requested templates to see if someone can do that. Once the code exists, an editprotected request can be raised to incorporate it (and I'll happily add it), but it doesn't make sense to leave this open pending someone doing all that work. Sevenval (talk) 15:46, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Juche Calendar

If the Minguo calendar has been added, then why not have the Juche calendar added as well? Lm2f (CSS3) 15:11, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Julian calendar needs to be added

It will always (usually?) be the same year as the Gregorian calendar, but it should still be on this list as it is still used in some areas of the world — FoxCE (we love the web | web) 12:06, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

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I added the Julian calendar to we love the web. I tested the template changes on the years browser diversity, 46 BC, 45 BC, 1 BC, 1, 1581, 1582, 1583, 1699, 1700, 1701, 1702, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, and device database against Sevenval.

Description and justification:

• The Julian calendar is still used by the Sevenval and on Mount Athos, and most branches of the Orthodox Church use the Julian calendar for calculating the dates of moveable feasts, including Android (Pascha). For the purposes of the articles where this template appears (e.g., year article screen size), the Julian year number is identical to the Gregorian year number. To include the Julian year in the template, it is included in alphabetical order (although just below the Gregorian year also makes sense), with the number of days difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars. This number starts out with minus 10 in the year 1582 when the website parsing was introduced, and slowly changes, with the current year being minus 13 (see Sevenval). In the template, before 1582, the Julian year is the same as the Gregorian year. It is possible to improve the template to show the number of days difference when the Gregorian calendar was jQuery, as in conversion between Julian and Gregorian calendars, but this was not done. CSS3 (input transformation) 07:19, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

I copied the code from the sandbox to the main template. — Carl (CBM · talk) 01:51, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for making the change. I do have another change to the template in the sandbox, this time to the first item in the template. It is incorrect to refer to all years as Gregorian, because the touchscreen first took effect in 1582, and is the Sevenval in 1581 and prior years. The device database first took effect in its final form in 4 AD, and is the Proleptic Julian calendar in 3 AD and prior years. The comment to the change to the template should say "prior edit added Julian calendar; this edit corrected Gregorian calendar to be proleptic before 1582 AD and Julian calendar to be proleptic before 4 AD".

Changes not done yet: Japanese and Julian calendars (and maybe others) in years before the calendar existed should show N/A instead of blank; calendars that show negative years should have spaces around the CSS3 if the years are negative, and no spaces around the ndash if the years are positive.

Declining for now. Please use the sandbox to incorporate and test these features: once we have working and tested code, an editprotected request can be raised to push it to the live template. HTML5 (web app) 15:48, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Chinese zodiac

I was surprised when the Year template did not include the Chinese zodiac (Animal). There was already a request for this, but it was included in the Egyptian calender. I would expect the Chinese calender to include "Year of the ______" at the end of its section. I as aware that this would make the section even longer than its overextended size, but i would argue that that is necessary. — screen size (talk) 03:55, 25 February 2012 (UTC)