On 11/1/15 7:57 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber via wrote: > At 01:59 PM 11/1/2015, Richard Damon via wrote: > >> My bigger complaint is that TMG doesn't really have a way to indicate >> that a date is Julian (aka Old Style), only that it should be double >> dated (only Old Style dates can be double dated, but not all Old Style >> dates should be double dated). > Confusingly, OS vs NS may NOT be Julian vs Gregorian. It is > more closely related to just the change of "New Year" -- some > jurisdictions made the change to January 1 while still using a Julian > calendar. > -- > I know of no usage of 'Old Style' for anything other than a Julian date, and not just to indicate the differing start of year. And the usage of New Style is almost exclusively for Gregorian dates. One thing to note, is that the start of year should NEVER be an issue with Gregorian dates, as the Gregorian calendar clearly established January 1st as the start of the year, so double year dating doesn't need to be used with any Gregorian date, only Julian dates. -- Richard Damon