From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: sds@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The Emacs Calculator and calendar
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:39:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1TLDYY-0005LS-BY@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txu6osl5.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Sam Steingold on Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:55:18 -0400)
Usually either both dates are supplied or they are more or less clearly
marked "old style". When a date in 1700-1918 is supplied without an
old/new style note, half the readers assume old style and half the new
style; this confusion is so common, that lack of a style note is a sure
sign that the date is not to be trusted (to the extent that it may be
wrong in either style).
This suggests that, at least for the case of Russia, it is no problem
if the Emacs calendar uses the Gregorian calendar (as now) for Russia
in that period.
What did Russia do for a calendar before 1700? And what do modern
historians use when writing dates for that period?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-08 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-05 19:13 The Emacs Calculator and calendar Jay Belanger
2012-10-05 19:24 ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-05 20:51 ` Edward Reingold
2012-10-05 21:14 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-10-06 15:41 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-06 22:07 ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-07 3:49 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-07 6:22 ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-07 17:30 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-07 18:23 ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-10 3:37 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-07 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-07 7:50 ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-07 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-07 13:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-10-07 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-07 17:30 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-07 17:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-10-07 21:55 ` Sam Steingold
2012-10-08 13:39 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2012-10-07 8:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-10-07 7:56 ` Achim Gratz
2012-10-07 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-07 13:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-07 20:32 ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-07 21:34 ` Tim Cross
2012-10-08 0:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-08 6:30 ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-08 7:28 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-10-08 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-08 14:49 ` Jay Belanger
2012-10-08 8:21 ` James Cloos
2012-10-08 14:59 ` Jay Belanger
2012-10-13 6:02 ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-13 14:05 ` Jay Belanger
2012-10-08 13:39 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-08 19:34 ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-08 22:39 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-09 6:28 ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-09 15:47 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-09 23:10 ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-10 2:22 ` Jay Belanger
2012-10-11 12:09 ` Jason Rumney
2012-10-12 1:52 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-10 3:37 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-10 21:42 ` Christoph Herzog
2012-10-05 21:17 ` Edward Reingold
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