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: The Emacs Calculator and calendar Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:39:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y5jk3f7d.fsf@gmail.com> <87626md8aj.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <83vcem6592.fsf@gnu.org> <5071E6E7.7080906@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349703590 24714 80.91.229.3 (8 Oct 2012 13:39:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 08 15:39:56 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 1TLDYp-0003pi-Ue for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:39:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46646 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLDYj-00059p-VL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:39:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54939) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLDYY-0004yT-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:39:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLDYS-0007h8-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:47263) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLDYS-0007h2-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:39:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLDYQ-0005Je-VL; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:39:31 -0400 In-reply-to: <5071E6E7.7080906@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:32:39 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 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:154231 Archived-At: The difficulties you cite come from the idea of specifying a place in order to determine the calendar. My suggestion was to specify a jurisdiction, an entity that had a calendrical policy. Examples of pertinent jurisdictions could be "England", "Vatican", and "Spain". "US" could be an alias for "England". For Los Angeles you could probably understand everything using the "Spain" jurisdiction. "US" is equivalent to "Spain" for the dates where the "US" jurisdiction is pertinent in Los Angeles. We would not need to try to have a "Chumash" jurisdiction. To handle calendar replacement cleanly does not entail trying to support every calendar that has ever been used anywhere. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call