From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: does Calendar understand DST rules for past years? Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:22:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8764bzh7v2.fsf@zip.com.au> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167153970 13052 80.91.229.10 (26 Dec 2006 17:26:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:26:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 26 18:26:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GzG3z-0001OC-0p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:26:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzG3y-00033q-FF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:26:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GzG0w-0006ZA-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:22:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GzG0v-0006Wk-Qs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:22:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzG0u-0006Vy-Vc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:22:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GzG0u-0008Vk-Ph for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:22:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GzG0j-0001hQ-DO; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:22:45 -0500 Original-To: Kevin Ryde In-reply-to: <8764bzh7v2.fsf@zip.com.au> (message from Kevin Ryde on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:29:53 +1100) 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:64299 Archived-At: The first sentence about the holidays is still true though. Perhaps The dates used by Emacs for holidays are based on @emph{current practice}, not historical fact. For example Veteran's Day began in 1919, but is shown in earlier years. Thanks.