From: Jaap Akkerhuis via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: When did "man cal" lose the comment about 1752?
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:02:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2A06CB50-B754-4939-8DDA-9E278960DCB4@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP=X_mOeTPPQLi61aEc2+kt=S2SFrD6CVfxGNH1uz6b3HTe4A@mail.gmail.com>
> On 15 Jul 2024, at 21:04, Ken Thompson <kenbob@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> it is worse than "per country",
> alaska changed when the u.s.
> bought it from russia.
Also note that the ISO country codes standard is from 1974. I guess
that is why the FreeBSD ncal states that
"The assignment of Julian–Gregorian switching dates to
country codes is historically naive for many countries."
What we call countries nowadays has changed over the years (and
centuries).
jaap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-15 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2024-07-15 19:33 ` Marc Donner
2024-07-16 15:54 ` Paul Winalski
2024-07-11 4:20 Rudi Blom
2024-07-15 19:52 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-07-16 6:59 ` [TUHS] " markus schnalke
2024-07-16 20:22 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-07-16 21:21 ` segaloco via TUHS
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