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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Year 2038 problem with calendar (Bad holiday list items)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:03:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17956.186.166442.258323@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704162244.l3GMiVZg013373@emr.cs.iit.edu>


Ed Reingold wrote (on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 at 17:44 -0500):

> From the point of view of the calendar (as explained in the docs)
> ONLY THE CURRENT RULES ARE RELEVANT, even if that is historically
> wrong (there was no Thanksgiving before in the US before about 1850,
> say). Getting that correct historically is well-nigh impossible.

Historical correctness was not the intent. The intent was to fix a
bug.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html

Note how it is possible for me to convey this information to you
without shouting.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-16 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-16  8:07 Year 2038 problem with calendar (Bad holiday list items) Sascha Wilde
2007-04-16  8:16 ` Ed Reingold
2007-04-16 14:40   ` Sascha Wilde
2007-04-16  8:23 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-16  8:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-04-16 13:26   ` Ed Reingold
2007-04-16 17:35 ` Glenn Morris
2007-04-16 19:37   ` Glenn Morris
     [not found]     ` <200704162012.l3GKClK9012725@emr.cs.iit.edu>
2007-04-16 22:37       ` Glenn Morris
     [not found]         ` <200704162244.l3GMiVZg013373@emr.cs.iit.edu>
2007-04-16 23:03           ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2007-04-17  2:37         ` Glenn Morris
2007-04-17  8:45     ` Sascha Wilde

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