From: Nicholas Strauss <nicholas.strauss@gmail.com>
To: 20583@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: gjs@ai.mit.edu
Subject: bug#20583: calendar-absolute-from-gregorian
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 21:20:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAgRMMJf39b5G6Q+4w=F8c8Wpw9R63frENQtg8tpFFHbgkmCmA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi Bug Emacs,
Why does (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian '(10 10 1582))
return 577731?
(calendar-generate '(10 1582)) is another example of this
error.
There are no Gregorian dates from 5 - 15 October 1582.
Pope Gregory declared this.
Hence, ALL absolute day numbers in calendar before 1582
are probably wrong. So using emacs for historical computations
is bogus.
I will work on writing calendar-absolute-from-gregorian and
calendar-gregorian-from-absolute to patch this error.
Let me know if this sounds OK.
nick
ncs@alum.mit.edu
next reply other threads:[~2015-05-15 4:20 UTC|newest]
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2015-05-15 4:20 Nicholas Strauss [this message]
2015-05-16 0:54 ` bug#20583: calendar-absolute-from-gregorian Glenn Morris
2015-05-16 1:48 ` Nicholas Strauss
2015-05-22 15:36 ` Nicholas Strauss
2015-05-24 15:29 ` Nicholas Strauss
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