From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The Emacs Calculator and calendar Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:17:48 +0900 Message-ID: <87ipamelw3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87y5jk3f7d.fsf@gmail.com> <5070AB89.4090900@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349597877 4849 80.91.229.3 (7 Oct 2012 08:17:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 08:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, Edward Reingold , 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 10:18:02 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 1TKm3j-0003yH-3J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:17:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKm3d-00029x-3D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 04:17:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKm3a-00029o-W4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 04:17:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKm3a-00045Q-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 04:17:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:51550) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKm3Z-00045H-S2; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 04:17:50 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2BB89708BF; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 17:17:48 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 68D5B129786; Sun, 7 Oct 2012 17:17:48 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <5070AB89.4090900@cs.ucla.edu> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:154164 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > > Perhaps a calendar program should allow the user to specify changeover > > date, offering convenient options for the main jurisdictions of interest. > > So I'm afraid this suggestion, though appealing in principle, is > not practical. I'd put it a little differently. While it's practical (ie, do-able in pieces, and useful to some people), it doesn't provide a general solution to the problem of specifying old dates.