Re: CLDR Usage of Gregorian Calendar Era Terms: BC and AD -- Can we please have "CE" and "BCE" ?

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BTW, if it's any consolation, Joseph Needham attempted to use a new
convention in his _Science and Civilisation in China_ by using
negative year numbers instead of BC/BCE. IIRC this has the side
effect of adding a year 0 and making a one-year difference in all pre-
AD/CE dates. Fortunately, his convention seems not to have caught on
and CLDR is mercifully freed from the need to support it.

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John H. Jenkins
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