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Date:      Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:25:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Adam David <adam@veda.is>
Cc:        helbig@FreeBSD.ORG (Wolfgang Helbig), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/cal cal.1
Message-ID:  <199712121525.KAA08743@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199712121113.LAA25484@veda.is>
References:  <199712121025.CAA07570@freefall.freebsd.org> <199712121113.LAA25484@veda.is>

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<<On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 11:13:41 +0000 (GMT), Adam David <adam@veda.is> said:

> It was 10 to 13 calendar dates, depending on when the change was effected
> in different countries. Isn't it rather too anglocentric to pick 1752 as
> the year of transition?

Well, it's the historic date used by the UNIX `cal' program, and since
the UNIX community is still dominated by people living in Britain and
her former colonies, I would suggest against changing it.

-GAWollman

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