From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The Emacs Calculator and calendar Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:45:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83txu6656t.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y5jk3f7d.fsf@gmail.com> <5070AB89.4090900@cs.ucla.edu> <831uha7pq9.fsf@gnu.org> <50713449.3010306@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349599579 16188 80.91.229.3 (7 Oct 2012 08:46:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 08:46:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, reingold@iit.edu, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 07 10:46:24 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 1TKmVD-0004Bn-Rr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:46:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52536 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKmV7-0006T7-R1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 04:46:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50430) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKmV5-0006T1-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 04:46:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKmV4-0004XL-SZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 04:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:36279) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKmV4-0004XE-KT; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 04:46:14 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MBI00D00LMO6J00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:45:56 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MBI00C82LOJLVB0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:45:56 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <50713449.3010306@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:154168 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:50:33 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: rms@gnu.org, jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, reingold@iit.edu, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 10/06/2012 11:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:07:05 -0700 > >> From: Paul Eggert > >> > >> Almost nobody who writes about ancient history specifies dates in the > >> calendars that were used at the time. > > > > Maybe in English-speaking countries. Try reading Russian history > > books, and you will see old dates right up to 1918. > > I was talking about ancient history, which ended > circa 500. Maybe you were talking about that limit, but the discussion clearly referred to dates up to 1752.