From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Year 2038 problem with calendar (Bad holiday list items) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:03:22 -0400 Message-ID: <17956.186.166442.258323@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <17955.64155.795539.395943@fencepost.gnu.org> <200704162244.l3GMiVZg013373@emr.cs.iit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176764770 29928 80.91.229.12 (16 Apr 2007 23:06:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:06:10 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 17 01:06:04 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HdaGn-0005IB-0e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:06:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdaLR-0006qj-Hm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:10:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HdaLN-0006pd-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:10:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HdaLL-0006pQ-L7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:10:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdaLL-0006pN-Ia for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:10:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HdaGg-0000he-7C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:05:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HdaEE-0004aS-Eb; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:03:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200704162244.l3GMiVZg013373@emr.cs.iit.edu> X-Attribution: GM X-Mailer: VM (www.wonderworks.com/vm), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs) X-Hue: yellow X-Ran: p*!^EMM_,_VxU!,&IJLxljYhpr.exS6!g*S&J[;hmTJ]"Gjurf$g\Qg%vQsdA-T^$n2Tyf X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69512 Archived-At: 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.