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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:24:38 +0200
From:      Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>
To:        Tyler K McGeorge <treznor@sunflower.com>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: September 1752
Message-ID:  <20010308202438.A58959@happy.checkpoint.com>
In-Reply-To: <000501c0a7fa$990247e0$103b7c18@palisor.yi.org>; from treznor@sunflower.com on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:07:08PM -0600
References:  <000501c0a7fa$990247e0$103b7c18@palisor.yi.org>

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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:07:08PM -0600, Tyler K McGeorge wrote:
> Has anybody else ever typed:
> 
>     $ cal 9 1752
> 
> What is up with September 1752? I am very confused by that.

The Julian -> Gregorian calendar change in England and its colonies.

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Anatoly Vorobey,
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