locale documentation describes non-existing ERA_YEAR constant

[abalkin]

BPO	9388
Nosy	@birkenfeld, @abalkin

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title = 'locale documentation describes non-existing ERA_YEAR constant'
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[abalkin]

Grepping through the source tree, reveals a single match for ERA_YEAR:

Doc/library/locale.rst:247: .. data:: ERA_YEAR

Google search for it shows an OpenSolaris bug report that explains the origin of this constant:

"""
There appears to be an IBM-private field in _LC_time_t struct,
era_year. We should remove "era_year" from the _LC_time_t struct.
This should only affect the LC_TIME functions, localedef
command, and locale objects. (nl_langinfo and langinfo.h are
unaffected because they don't reference era_year.)
"""

I believe this entry should simply be removed.

[birkenfeld]

Thanks, fixed in r83232.