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by Aidevah
590 days ago
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> Unless you’re doing some fairly exotic things where you’re finding yourself saying things like >> Oh yeah the OCR on Japanese driving licenses pops out things like “平成 8”, that’s just how they sometimes say 1996 over there. That’s why we have this in the parser: eras = { "大正": 1912, "昭和": 1926, "平成": 1989 } >> One of these days we’ll need to add "令和": 2019, but it hasn’t come up yet. Taiwan also uses the ROC calendar[1] which is directly descended from the regnal calendars of imperial china. But it's quaint that the Japanese name their year after one person, while us enlightened westerners simply use a calendar where it's simply the 2024th year of the, erm, hmmmph... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_calendar |
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