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authorSteven R. Loomis <srloomis@us.ibm.com>2018-10-17 09:43:52 -0700
committerSteven R. Loomis <srloomis@us.ibm.com>2018-10-24 08:27:36 -0700
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deps: icu 63.1 bump (CLDR 34)
- Full release notes: http://site.icu-project.org/download/63 Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/22344 PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/23715 Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com> Reviewed-By: Gus Caplan <me@gus.host> Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
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* For example, subtracting 5 days from the date <code>September 12, 1996</code>
* results in <code>September 7, 1996</code>.
*
+ * <p>
+ * The Japanese calendar uses a combination of era name and year number.
+ * When an emperor of Japan abdicates and a new emperor ascends the throne,
+ * a new era is declared and year number is reset to 1. Even if the date of
+ * abdication is scheduled ahead of time, the new era name might not be
+ * announced until just before the date. In such case, ICU4C may include
+ * a start date of future era without actual era name, but not enabled
+ * by default. ICU4C users who want to test the behavior of the future era
+ * can enable the tentative era by:
+ * <ul>
+ * <li>Environment variable <code>ICU_ENABLE_TENTATIVE_ERA=true</code>.</li>
+ * </ul>
+ *
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/