“The day starts with sunrise” is the conceptual basis for the clock in Ethiopia and many of its neighbors. Think “time realm”, it’s easier to think of Ethiopia as existing outside of regular time as we know it. Ethiopia has its own system of reckoning that even the most advanced localization infrastructure is ill prepare to cope with. Time localization is more than merely getting the format pattern right and GMT+3 set as the time zone –a virtually unknown offset from a reference point under some external system of reference. Localization in Ethiopia follows the usual pattern of translating terminologies, applying a keyboard for the writing system, applying collation and formatting rules, but to really get it right is a matter of time. The Ethiopic Calendar The Ethiopic Calendar
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