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From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] When did "man cal" lose the comment about 1752?
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:52:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiVye7jZhw2HTL66GUr5zUtRj2QExGefXpcm=bk02fyNnA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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> 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.

Doug

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             reply	other threads:[~2024-07-15 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-15 19:52 Douglas McIlroy [this message]
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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2024-07-11  1:24 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall

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