Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:42:27 +0200 From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> To: Tyler K McGeorge <treznor@sunflower.com> Cc: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>, Almus <almus@dis.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: September 1752 Message-ID: <20010308204227.A59119@happy.checkpoint.com> In-Reply-To: <000e01c0a7fc$60868640$103b7c18@palisor.yi.org>; from treznor@sunflower.com on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:19:54PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103081312190.98308-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> <000e01c0a7fc$60868640$103b7c18@palisor.yi.org>
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:19:54PM -0600, Tyler K McGeorge wrote: > So that would mean that cal isn't a Gregorian calendar, but, rather, a > calandar of England and it's colonies? It's silly to stretch back Gregorian calendar to a date where it wasn't used, simply because you'll get the days of the week wrong. When jumping Julian->Gregorian, days of the week weren't affected; in fact, they were never affected by any change in calendars at least for the last 3000 years or so. cal allows you to specify the date of the changeover, or tries to guess one based on your timezone, or falls back to England's date. See the manpage. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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