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 09:39:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y5jk3f7d.fsf@gmail.com> <5070AB89.4090900@cs.ucla.edu> <831uha7pq9.fsf@gnu.org> <87txu6osl5.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349703598 24797 80.91.229.3 (8 Oct 2012 13:39:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:39:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: sds@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 08 15:40:03 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 1TLDYx-0003rY-1g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:40:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47250 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLDYq-0005V6-TT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:39:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLDYj-00059o-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:39:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLDYa-0007kk-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:39:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:47270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLDYZ-0007ke-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:39:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLDYY-0005LS-BY; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:39:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <87txu6osl5.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Sam Steingold on Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:55:18 -0400) 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:154232 Archived-At: 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? -- 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