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Surely the date of switchover between Julian and Gregorian calendars is locale specific? For example, getting the rules right for Sweden is… “interesting” given that they tried to do the switch slowly, got distracted by a war, and then decided to switch the rest of the way at once. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 13:53, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
: Yes. And this reminds me of [[Talk:Holidays_related_to_Easter|easter]]. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 18:22, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Maybe a the switch over date should be an argument, defaulting to the British date of switch? I am also a bit curious as to what dating system the [[wp:International Astronomical Union|International Astronomical Union]] use. Maybe there is standard for year/date definitions in [[wp:Common_Era|BCE and
Or... Another task could be to calculate the locale date and time, based on latitude, longitude, (altitude?) AND date. Ouch... to tough for me.
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