From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Nicholas Strauss <nicholas.strauss@gmail.com>
Cc: 20583@debbugs.gnu.org, gjs@ai.mit.edu
Subject: bug#20583: calendar-absolute-from-gregorian
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 20:54:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <577fs9xryr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAgRMMJf39b5G6Q+4w=F8c8Wpw9R63frENQtg8tpFFHbgkmCmA@mail.gmail.com>
Nicholas Strauss wrote:
> Why does (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian '(10 10 1582))
> return 577731?
> (calendar-generate '(10 1582)) is another example of this
> error.
It's behaving as designed. It's a utility function that operates on the
basis that today's calendar system is valid for all time. It's not meant
as literally historically accurate, and I think trying to make it so (by
introducing discontinuities at certain dates) would be a mistake. See eg
thread at:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-07/msg01008.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-16 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-15 4:20 bug#20583: calendar-absolute-from-gregorian Nicholas Strauss
2015-05-16 0:54 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2015-05-16 1:48 ` Nicholas Strauss
2015-05-22 15:36 ` Nicholas Strauss
2015-05-24 15:29 ` Nicholas Strauss
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=577fs9xryr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org \
--to=rgm@gnu.org \
--cc=20583@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=gjs@ai.mit.edu \
--cc=nicholas.strauss@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).