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Originally Posted by Chemlak
It would have to differentiate between, for example, 25 November 1862 CE and 25 November 1862 BCE - most people don't include the era when typing a date, and the software would have to guess which you meant, and then let you change it easily without having to type the date out in full if the software guessed wrong.
And that's not even mentioning something as trivial as the US mm/dd/yyyy versus the more common dd/mm/yyyy format, which just adds to the difficulty of the software recognising what you're typing in and turning it into a date suitable for your currently active calendar.
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There is of course a step between the way it is done now and giving the user total free reigns in how to enter the dates. you could also make a form where you must enter the different fields separately. So in you example you would need to enter day, month, year, era in four different fields. That would mean that it is easier to switch between 1 januari 20.000 BCE to 23 july 2016.