[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2591) Nondenominational calendar patch

["Raimar Falke via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:59:27PM -0800, esr@xxxxxxxxxxx via RT wrote:
> 
> This patch makes all necessary changes to go fom BC/AD (Before
> Christ/Anno Domini) to BCE/CE (Before Common Era/Common Era).  A good
> thing unless we want to assume that all Freeciv's future users will
> be Christians.
> 
> If you haven't encountered this usage before, that's because it's 
> mostly an academic one.  Other educated native speakers of English 
> recognize it but don't generate it spomtaneously.
> 
> My patches to the data files already use BCE/CE.  

As you may have noticed there are more votes against BCE/CE then for
it. The maintainers agree to these reasons (unknown to people,
academic use but freeciv is a game, non-Christian people will already
encountered it, ...). So it will stay BC/AD. Case closed.

        Raimar

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