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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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