Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:19:43 -0800 (PST) From: Maksim Yevmenkin <m_evmenkin@yahoo.com> To: "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@freebsd.org.ru>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars calendar.birthday Message-ID: <20040102191943.59871.qmail@web40305.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040102185201.GM35515@freebsd.org.ru>
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Dear Hackers, --- "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@freebsd.org.ru> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:46:25PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <20040102183241.GK35515@freebsd.org.ru>, "Sergey A. Osokin" > writes: > > > > >Hm, if you removed "(now part of USSR)", you must also remove > > >"SFSR" (aka Soviet Federative Socialistic Republic) and add > > >Federation. > > > > > > 01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919 > > > 01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735 > > >-01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR, 1920 > > >+01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian Federation, 1920 > > > 01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864 > > > 01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785 > > > 01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars > > > > Is that really correct ? As far as I know, it was called > > USSR in 1920... > > Yes, correct. I can't understand why grog removed that substring... > Maybe more correct version is > "Petrovichi, USSR (now Russian Federation)" ? well, from what i remember from the school history class, *officially* USSR was formed on December 30, 1922 :) that's the date when first USSR constitution was accepted and signed :) before that it was called Russian SFSR. so, IMO, the original line was correct. just my 0.02 Soviet ruble :) thanks, max __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003
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