From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 15888 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2023 03:18:43 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 24 Nov 2023 03:18:43 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1A7425B9; Fri, 24 Nov 2023 13:18:38 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87DBA425B8 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2023 13:18:35 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (121-200-11-253.79c80b.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net [121.200.11.253]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC5528087; Fri, 24 Nov 2023 03:18:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hydra.lemis.com (hydra.lemis.com [192.109.197.129]) by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F1782635CB; Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:18:34 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from hydra.lemis.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydra.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95CFE139E8; Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:18:34 +1100 (AEDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by hydra.lemis.com (8.17.1/8.16.1/Submit) id 3AO3IY8m031690; Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:18:34 +1100 (AEDT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:18:34 +1100 From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" To: Norman Wilson Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CfM6C9+zewetU1TL" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Message-ID-Hash: ZEG77GFN2NBDYAJBDZSBGHRS2H3DDU2T X-Message-ID-Hash: ZEG77GFN2NBDYAJBDZSBGHRS2H3DDU2T X-MailFrom: grog@hydra.lemis.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Thanksgiving (was: Test, test) List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --CfM6C9+zewetU1TL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 23 November 2023 at 21:58:15 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote: > Damien Wildie: > > It is Friday in Australia now > > ==== > > Yes, I know that. I was at Caltech, it was one of the > first things they taught us. > > I just don't understand why, if Australia had a Thanksgiving > Day, they would choose to have it on the same day as the US. Well, it doesn't make any sense here, since summer starts next week. But when has that worried people out to make a quick buck? > Does any other country? According to Wikipedia, Norfolk Island comes close. > On the other hand, if Thanksgiving Day actually mattered to anyone > important, the original ctime(3) would have had a special table to > compute its date, including all the different a dates it had in the > US before 1942. Well, I think that ncal(1) would be a better choice nowadays. Sounds like a good project for times of boredom. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php --CfM6C9+zewetU1TL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQSaG4ICvM64RvkvCawi5vKQUHpCIwUCZWAWBQAKCRAi5vKQUHpC I0pPAJ0dGJaQLTDHZxseRYXdG7IojmJTfACfTvHLVbCn8y8H7SsavNaOJs3Qzjk= =t8u1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CfM6C9+zewetU1TL--