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On 2/13/24 11:42, Anthony Martin wrote:
> That reference has been there since first edition Unix:
> 
> 	For years when several calendars were in vogue in
> 	different countries, the calendar of England (and
> 	therefore her colonies) is printed. P.S. try cal of 1752.
> 
> The 1752 is the key here. That is the year that England (and
> her colonies) switched to the Gregorian calendar. France did
> it in 1582, Russia in 1918, etc. That note is telling you which
> calendar the cal(1) command uses. It's important.
> 
> Why get rid of it?
> 
> Cheers,
>   Anthony

I admit I was unfamiliar with the varying adoption dates.
I thought it was referring to the use of the Gregorian calendar
itself, not the adoption date. I removed it because referring to
England's colonies in the present tense rubs me the wrong way.
I pitched this on the grid and others had also shared my reading of this.

I agree that we can document that this is the adoption rate used, but I would
like to be more direct with it.

- moody