From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:146::1]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E187829012 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:31:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA3E426FF; Fri, 12 Jul 2024 05:31:30 +1000 (AEST) Received: from vmail1.sentex.ca (vmail1.sentex.ca [64.7.153.19]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 39778426C6 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2024 05:31:22 +1000 (AEST) Received: (Haraka outbound); Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:31:21 -0400 Authentication-Results: vmail1.sentex.ca; auth=pass (plain) Received: from [10.0.1.25] ([206.210.117.153]) by vmail1.sentex.ca (Haraka/2.8.25) with ESMTPSA id 69686E85-104C-4EC2-94BB-1E16F442ACD1.1 envelope-from (authenticated bits=0) (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256); Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:31:21 -0400 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:31:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Content-Language: en-CA To: tuhs@tuhs.org References: From: Stuff Received In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Haraka-GeoIP: NA, CA, ON, Campbellville, 23km Message-ID-Hash: CMNC6YREAWYRIUIWXKNNX4LVDCBKWH65 X-Message-ID-Hash: CMNC6YREAWYRIUIWXKNNX4LVDCBKWH65 X-MailFrom: stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: When did "man cal" lose the comment about 1752? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 2024-07-10 21:44, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote (in part): > On Thursday, 11 July 2024 at 11:24:26 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: >> The manpage for "cal" used to have the comment "Try September 1752" (and >> yes, I know why); it's no longer there, so when did it disappear? The >> SysV fun police? >> >> I remember it in Ed5 and Ed6, but can't remember when I last saw it. > [...] > > It sounds like that's not the quote you're thinking of, though. I've > checked back as far as FreeBSD 1.0, which had a much simpler version > of cal. The man page states > > The Gregorian Reformation is assumed to have occurred in 1752 on the > 3rd of September. By this time, most countries had recognized the ref- > ormation (although a few did not recognize it until the early 1900's.) > Ten days following that date were eliminated by the reformation, so the > calendar for that month is a bit unusual. Solaris 11 has this version: NOTES An unusual calendar is printed for September 1752. That is the month 11 days were skipped to make up for lack of leap year adjustments. To see this calendar, type: cal 9 1752 S.