From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 'cal 9 1752' and emacs calendar disagree
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:29:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3odvl5ivf.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607192224.k6JMOOHT024840@emr.cs.iit.edu> (Ed Reingold's message of "Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:24:24 -0500")
Ed Reingold <reingold@emr.cs.iit.edu> writes:
> No, it is not a bug. The odd Sept 1752 was only that way in England and her
> colonies--not in general. It is the Unix cal program that is in error. The
> Emacs calendar shows the Gregorian calendar, period. But it allows one to get
> dates on many other calendars as well, such as the Julian. What cal gives is
> the first part of the month on Julian calendar and the latter part on the
> Gregorian--that is nonsense.
>
> The date the switch was made is geographically dependent and stretched over a
> period of hundreds of years.
For minute details, see http://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/calendar28.txt
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-19 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-07-19 22:16 ` 'cal 9 1752' and emacs calendar disagree Leon
2006-07-19 22:24 ` Ed Reingold
2006-07-19 22:29 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2006-07-20 15:32 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-19 22:28 ` Nic James Ferrier
2006-07-19 22:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-07-19 23:15 ` Leon
2006-07-19 23:24 ` Nic James Ferrier
2006-12-17 23:35 ` ediff output Michael Kifer
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