From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The Emacs Calculator and calendar Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:41:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y5jk3f7d.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349538107 24541 80.91.229.3 (6 Oct 2012 15:41:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 15:41:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Edward Reingold Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 06 17:41:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TKWVg-0006VX-9U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:41:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60540 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKWVa-0000pR-EU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:41:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59466) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKWVX-0000oz-UI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKWVX-0001v8-0g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:45005) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKWVW-0001v4-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKWVV-0003Od-M7; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:41:37 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Edward Reingold on Fri, 5 Oct 2012 15:51:06 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154126 Archived-At: I would say it even more strongly: the Unix cal and the Emacs calc are foolish chimeras; there were hundreds of different dates of adoption of the Gregorian calendar, stretching almost 400 years. Emacs calendar does the only sane thing. I am not convinced. Nobody used the Gregorian calendar in 1400, so displaying dates from that year in Gregorian is an anachronism. Perhaps a calendar program should allow the user to specify changeover date, offering convenient options for the main jurisdictions of interest. The Vatican would be one option, England would be another, etc. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call