Re: CAcert assurance information

[Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>]

At Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:48:09 +0300,
Simon Richter wrote:

> > Passport should be fine, but drivers license is only written in
> > Japanese only with photo, no English at all and date of birth is
> > written in Japanese name of Era instead of the Christian Era so number
> > of year would not be matched.  Is this drivers license acceptable for
> > photo ID shown?
> 
> For me, it is. If I understood correctly, 昭和 1 would be 1926, even if
> only a few days happen to fall into the 昭和 era, is that correct?

Sure. You can also check it in locale (/usr/share/i18n/locale/ja_JP)

era     "+:2:1990/01/01:+*:平成:%EC%Ey年";/
        "+:1:1989/01/08:1989/12/31:平成:%EC元年";/
        "+:2:1927/01/01:1989/01/07:昭和:%EC%Ey年";/
        "+:1:1926/12/25:1926/12/31:昭和:%EC元年";/
        "+:2:1913/01/01:1926/12/24:大正:%EC%Ey年";/
        "+:2:1912/07/30:1912/12/31:大正:%EC元年";/
        "+:6:1873/01/01:1912/07/29:明治:%EC%Ey年";/
        "+:1:0001/01/01:1872/12/31:西暦:%EC%Ey年";/
        "+:1:-0001/12/31:-*:紀元前:%EC%Ey年"

If you have japanese locale, 

 % LANG=ja_JP.EUC-JP date -d yyyy-mm-dd +%EC%Ey

shows name of era and year.

So, may I put "drivers license" in Photo ID Shown?

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI


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