[Diversity-talk] Opening hours syntax for non Gregorian calendar

[Rory McCann]

Hi all,

There was a question on the tagging mailing list about non-gregorian 
calendars. No clear resolution. Just another thing with making one map 
of the whole world.

R/

On 17/05/2019 20:40, Saeed Hubaishan wrote:
> As I see in the wiki opening hours should be in Gregorian calendar 
> only.  But in fact there are many countries and religions using another 
> calendars that affect the opening hours.
> 
> We (Muslims) used the Hijri Calendar 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar (lunar calendar)  for our 
> holidays (Eid Alfiter and Eid Aledha)  all government offices and shops 
> has another opening time in these holidays. Also in Ramdan holy month 
> (9th month) all government offices and shops has a different opening time.
> 
> So opening_hours syntax must accept the other calendar systems.
> 
> 
> the renderers may use ICU open source library to manage these other 
> calendars see http://userguide.icu-project.org/datetime/calendar
> 
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