Open anba opened 6 months ago
UTS 35 says:
Era start or end dates are specified in terms of the equivalent proleptic Gregorian date (in "y-M-d" format). Eras may be open-ended, with unspecified start or end dates.
https://cldr-smoke.unicode.org/spec/main/ldml/tr35-dates.html#Supplemental_Calendar_Data
The CLDR data:
<era type="232" start="1868-9-8" code="meiji"/>
So this might be an issue in CLDR.
There is already a CLDR issue about it:
The start date of the Meiji era is incorrectly reported as September 8, 1868 (Gregorian calendar). I guess the start date from CLDR is incorrectly assumed to be in the Gregorian calendar, even though in 1868 the Chinese lunar calendar was still in use in Japan.
(Tested with release 1.4.)