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* [COFF] What does your "cal" show?
@ 2021-09-02 22:10 Dave Horsfall
  2021-09-02 23:40 ` Tom Manos
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2021-09-02 22:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Computer Old Farts Followers

In 1752 we switched to the Gregorian calendar, with the peasants revolting 
(as if they weren't already) because they thought they'd lost 11 days of 
their lives.

What does "cal 9 1752" show on your boxes?

-- Dave
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* Re: [COFF] What does your "cal" show?
@ 2021-09-03 13:06 Noel Chiappa
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From: Noel Chiappa @ 2021-09-03 13:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
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    > From: Dave Horsfall

    > What does "cal 9 1752" show on your boxes?

Given that the source:

  https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/source/s1/cal.c

has been in C since at least V6, I'd be rather surprised if on other
machines it did anything other than what those of us who were paying
attention read in the documentation:

  https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/man/man6/cal.6

back then: "Try September 1752."

Get off my lawn.

	Noel

PS: Said documentation already notes that it won't work in most counries:
"The calendar produced is that for England and her colonies." For more
fun with calendates, check out the Japanese Lunar-Solar Calendar:

  http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/prints/calendar.html
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2021-09-02 22:10 [COFF] What does your "cal" show? Dave Horsfall
2021-09-02 23:40 ` Tom Manos
2021-09-02 23:40 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-09-03  0:03   ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-09-03  0:54     ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2021-09-03  1:10       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-09-03  4:58         ` Dave Horsfall
2021-09-03  0:58     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-09-03  4:47     ` Dave Horsfall
2021-09-03  9:28 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF
2021-09-08 10:24   ` Tony Finch
2021-09-08 13:25     ` Dave Horsfall
2021-09-08 20:36       ` Warner Losh
2021-09-08 22:52         ` Adam Thornton
2021-09-04 14:03 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-09-03 13:06 Noel Chiappa

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