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--- source	(revision 2436)
+++ source	(revision 2437)
@@ -1998,8 +1998,8 @@
   <h5>Months</h5>
 
   <p>A <dfn title="concept-month">month</dfn> consists of a specific
-  Gregorian date with no timezone information and no date information
-  beyond a year and a month. <a
+  proleptic Gregorian date with no timezone information and no date
+  information beyond a year and a month. <a
   href="#refsGREGORIAN">[GREGORIAN]</a></p>
 
   <p>A string is a <dfn>valid month string</dfn> representing a year
@@ -2090,8 +2090,9 @@
   <h5>Dates</h5>
 
   <p>A <dfn title="concept-date">date</dfn> consists of a specific
-  Gregorian date with no timezone information, consisting of a year, a
-  month, and a day. <a href="#refsGREGORIAN">[GREGORIAN]</a></p>
+  proleptic Gregorian date with no timezone information, consisting of
+  a year, a month, and a day. <a
+  href="#refsGREGORIAN">[GREGORIAN]</a></p>
 
   <p>A string is a <dfn>valid date string</dfn> representing a year
   <var title="">year</var>, month <var title="">month</var>, and day
@@ -2356,10 +2357,10 @@
   <h5>Local dates and times</h5>
 
   <p>A <dfn title="concept-datetime-local">local date and time</dfn>
-  consists of a specific Gregorian date, consisting of a year, a
-  month, and a day, and a time, consisting of an hour, a minute, a
-  second, and a fraction of a second, but expressed without a time
-  zone. <a href="#refsGREGORIAN">[GREGORIAN]</a></p>
+  consists of a specific proleptic Gregorian date, consisting of a
+  year, a month, and a day, and a time, consisting of an hour, a
+  minute, a second, and a fraction of a second, but expressed without
+  a time zone. <a href="#refsGREGORIAN">[GREGORIAN]</a></p>
 
   <p>A string is a <dfn>valid local date and time string</dfn>
   representing a date and time if it consists of the following
@@ -2424,10 +2425,10 @@
   <h5>Global dates and times</h5>
 
   <p>A <dfn title="concept-datetime">global date and time</dfn>
-  consists of a specific Gregorian date, consisting of a year, a
-  month, and a day, and a time, consisting of an hour, a minute, a
-  second, and a fraction of a second, expressed with a time zone,
-  consisting of a number of hours and minutes. <a
+  consists of a specific proleptic Gregorian date, consisting of a
+  year, a month, and a day, and a time, consisting of an hour, a
+  minute, a second, and a fraction of a second, expressed with a time
+  zone, consisting of a number of hours and minutes. <a
   href="#refsGREGORIAN">[GREGORIAN]</a></p>
 
   <!--XXX [GREGORIAN] should point to
@@ -2526,9 +2527,9 @@
     <li>To unambiguously identify a moment in time prior to the
     introduction of the Gregorian calendar, the date has to be first
     converted to the Gregorian calendar from the calendar in use at
-    the time (e.g. from the Julian calendar). The date of Nero's
-    birth is the 15th of December 37, in the Julian Calendar, which
-    is the 13th of December 37 in the Gregorian Calendar.</li> <!--
+    the time (e.g. from the Julian calendar). The date of Nero's birth
+    is the 15th of December 37, in the Julian Calendar, which is the
+    13th of December 37 in the proleptic Gregorian Calendar.</li> <!--
     XXX this might not be true. I can't find a reference that gives
     his birthday with an explicit statement about the calendar being
     used. However, it seems unlikely that it would be given in the
@@ -2706,11 +2707,12 @@
   href="#refsGREGORIAN">[GREGORIAN]</a></p>
 
   <p>A week-year with a number <var title="">year</var> that
-  corresponds to a year <var title="">year</var> in the Gregorian
-  calendar that has a Thursday as its first day (January 1st), and a
-  week-year <var title="">year</var> where <var title="">year</var> is
-  a number divisible by 400, or a number divisible by 4 but not by
-  100, has 53 weeks. All other week-years have 52 weeks.</p>
+  corresponds to a year <var title="">year</var> in the proleptic
+  Gregorian calendar that has a Thursday as its first day (January
+  1st), and a week-year <var title="">year</var> where <var
+  title="">year</var> is a number divisible by 400, or a number
+  divisible by 4 but not by 100, has 53 weeks. All other week-years
+  have 52 weeks.</p>
 
   <p>The <dfn>week number of the last day</dfn> of a week-year with 53
   weeks is 53; the week number of the last day of a week-year with 52
@@ -2718,7 +2720,7 @@
 
   <p class="note">The week-year number of a particular day can be
   different than the number of the year that contains that day in the
-  Gregorian calendar. The first week in a week-year <var
+  proleptic Gregorian calendar. The first week in a week-year <var
   title="">year</var> is the week that contains the first Thursday of
   the Gregorian year <var title="">year</var>.</p>
 

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