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 18:39:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y5jk3f7d.fsf@gmail.com> <87626md8aj.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <83vcem6592.fsf@gnu.org> <5071E6E7.7080906@cs.ucla.edu> <50732AD7.8000003@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 1349735953 29858 80.91.229.3 (8 Oct 2012 22:39:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 22:39:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 09 00:39:16 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 1TLLyi-0001El-I1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:39:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56675 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLLyc-0002c0-FL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52907) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLLyZ-0002br-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLLyY-0005q1-7K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:39:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:59500) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLLyY-0005pw-4H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLLyX-0003by-7C; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:39:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <50732AD7.8000003@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:34:47 -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:154247 Archived-At: > For Los Angeles you could probably understand everything using the > "Spain" jurisdiction. After 1556 yes, but before that the Spanish variant of the Julian calendar is probably not what users want. Once again, you're being cryptic. That objection seems to be a red herring since all the dates you gave are after 1556. Would we ask Budapest users to manually switch among all the jurisdictions that have controlled that city: "Hungarian", "Romanian", "Austro-Hungarian", "Habsburg", "Ottoman", "Angevin", etc., etc.? Maybe one named "Hungarian" would be most convenient. But in practice it is possible (depending on facts) that they could use Austrian and it would work. Did the Ottoman empire use the Islamic calendar? If so, most Hungarians probably used some Christian calendar during that period, and would be more satisfied if that one were used for those years. Basically you are trying to make this idea fail by being too rigid about it. That approach shows nothing about whether it COULD be a useful fuature. The only way we can tell that is if someone looks at it trying to make it useful. -- 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