At Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:15:53 -0400, Marc Donner wrote: Subject: [TUHS] Re: When did "man cal" lose the comment about 1752? > > My instance of cal (MacOS 14.5) has this in the man page: > > -s country_code > > Assume the switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar at the date > associated with the country_code. If not specified, ncal tries > to guess the switch date from the local environment or falls back > to September 2, 1752. This was when Great Britain and her > colonies switched to the Gregorian Calendar. That's 'ncal' from FreeBSD, which is an entirely "new" implementation written by Wolfgang Helbig: commit 0cb2e609d9c2f0ceaf730a57ac5c11580058e7f4 Author: Wolfgang Helbig Date: Mon Dec 15 20:35:22 1997 +0000 Add new command ncal. > Note that the switch to the Gregorian calendar happened at different times > in different countries. In Catholic-dominated countries it happened in > October of 1582. The English-speaking world, being Protestant-dominated, > waited until September of 1752 to adopt it. Indeed! -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms