Looking for a list of alternate calendar codes

I was helping a client yesterday whose calendar dates were showing up with weird years, and I tracked down that his > Language and Region > Calendar setting was set to Japanese. (It showed the date with R5 instead of a year, so July 12, 2023 showed as 7/12/R5.) We fixed it by resetting it to Gregorian.


I noticed in the settings that there were a long list of alternative calendars available:

My question is this: if Japanese is listed as R5 (which appears to stand for Reiwa 5), are there similar codes for each of the other calendars, and if so, where can I find a list of the codes?

If not, how would the dates show up in settings for each of these calendars?


I get a lot of clients from other countries and would like to be prepared for the possibility of discovering other calendar types on their devices.


Zane


Mac Pro (2023)

Posted on Jul 11, 2023 6:51 PM

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