calendar description descripción de las calendarios description des calendriers descrizione delle calendari contains a description of the calendar system used in any dating expression found in the text. contient la description des différents calendriers utilisés dans des dates écrits dans un manuscrit. contiene una descripción de todos los diferentes calendarios usados en un manuscrito. contiene una descrizione dei diversi calendari usati in un manoscritto

Anno Domini (Christian Era)

Anno Hegirae (Muhammedan Era)

Mauludi Era (solar years since Mohammed's birth)

Anno Mundi (Jewish Calendar)

Anno Persici

Aji Saka Era (Java)

Buddhist Era

Cooch Behar Era

Common Era

Chinese Lunar Era

Chula Sakarat Era

Ethiopian Era

Fasli Era

ISO 8601 calendar

Japanese Calendar

Khalsa Era (Sikh calendar)

Kali Yuga

Malabar Era

Monarchic Solar Era

Nepal Samwat Era

Old Style (Julian Calendar)

Rattanakosin (Bangkok) Era

Saka Era

Mohammedan Solar Era (Iran)

Saka Samvat

Tripurabda Era

Vikrama Era

Vikrama Samvat Era

Gregorian calendar

Julian calendar

Islamic or Muslim (hijri) lunar calendar

Hebrew or Jewish lunisolar calendar

French Revolutionary calendar

Iranian or Persian (Jalaali) solar calendar

Coptic or Alexandrian calendar

Chinese lunisolar calendar

Egyptian calendar (as defined by Wikipedia)

In the first example above, calendars and short codes for xml:ids are from W3 guidelines at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-11/#lang-cal-country