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: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:37:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y5jk3f7d.fsf@gmail.com> <5070AB89.4090900@cs.ucla.edu> <50711FBB.1040507@cs.ucla.edu> <5071C886.8050504@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 1349840270 10711 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2012 03:37:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:37:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, reingold@iit.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 10 05:37:56 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 1TLn7L-0001Dg-Sw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 05:37:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38251 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLn7F-0006pe-N5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:37:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60082) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLn75-0006V7-2F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:37:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLn73-0001y7-H1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:37:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:37795) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLn73-0001y3-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:37:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLn72-0002Yr-Gq; Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:37:36 -0400 In-reply-to: <5071C886.8050504@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sun, 07 Oct 2012 11:23:02 -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:154268 Archived-At: Here are the two calendars in question for 1748, to give you an idea of what's going on. The two years have differing start and end dates, and have differing numbers of days (one has 365 days, the other 366). The Emacs calendar displays as a series of months, it would not be hard to support starting the year at a different month. Starting the year at a day that is not first of a month is not hard either. The only hard part is how to show the user where the year starts. -- 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