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From: markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: When did "man cal" lose the comment about 1752?
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 08:59:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1sTc9e-0hh-00@marmaro.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiVye7jZhw2HTL66GUr5zUtRj2QExGefXpcm=bk02fyNnA@mail.gmail.com>

Hoi.

[2024-07-15 15:52] Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
>
> > Yeah, but if you do that you have to treat the places
> > acquired in the Louisiana Purchase differently because
> > they switched in 1582.  And Puerto Rico.  Bleh.
> 
> Then there are all the German city states. And the
> shifting borders of Poland. (cal -s country) is a mighty
> low-res "solution" to the Julian/Gregorian problem.

Several of these small entities, adopting the Gregorian calendar at
different times, you can see in this lenghty list:
	https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorianischer_Kalender#%C3%9Cbernahme_des_gregorianischen_Kalenders
(in German)


meillo

  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-16  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-15 19:52 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-07-16  6:59 ` markus schnalke [this message]
2024-07-16 20:22   ` [TUHS] " Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-07-16 21:21     ` segaloco via TUHS
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-07-11  4:20 Rudi Blom
2024-07-11  1:24 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2024-07-11  1:44 ` [TUHS] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-07-11  3:10   ` Dave Horsfall
2024-07-11 19:31   ` Stuff Received
2024-07-11  1:53 ` Henry Bent
2024-07-11  3:29   ` Dave Horsfall
2024-07-14 19:04   ` Greg A. Woods
2024-07-14 21:15 ` Marc Donner
2024-07-15 14:00   ` Paul Winalski
2024-07-15 18:21     ` Marc Donner
2024-07-15 18:41       ` Phil Budne
2024-07-15 17:44   ` Greg A. Woods
2024-07-15 19:03     ` Ken Thompson
2024-07-15 19:04       ` Ken Thompson
2024-07-15 20:02         ` Jaap Akkerhuis via TUHS
2024-07-15 19:33       ` Marc Donner
2024-07-16 15:54         ` Paul Winalski

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