Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:13:08 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Tony Harverson <Tony@epages.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Calendar Changes. Message-ID: <3DD20994.CD5FE4A8@mindspring.com> References: <C488E371DE5F0E45B1D254CDDADD4B6307445C@rabbit.epages.net>
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Tony Harverson wrote: > My attention was drawn a little while ago to the fact that the South > African holidays in /usr/share/calendar/ were far out of date (most not > having been celebrated since 1994), and so I decided to clean them up. > As soon as I got into actually working in that directory, it struck me > that it's hard to know just where to fix things. [ ... ] > I'm getting the impression the whole thing grew organically, rather than > with a design in mind.. I'm getting the impression that South Africa's major historical events have occurred at almost random times, with the resulting list of official holidays growing organically, rather than with a design in mind... 8-) 8-). Maybe we should put a cap on major historical events? "Yes, Oingnatia, it would be nice for your people to be free, but if you become a representative democracy, and make a holiday of it, we will have to edit calendar.holiday, and that would be a pain; could you keep your murderous dictator until Next July 17th? Then we will be able to just symlink you to your neighbor, Mugataland, since that's when they killed off their former military Junta. Or if you could at least wait to throw off the chains of oppression until after 5.0 is released, we'd really appreciate it. Thanks." Things involving people often grow organically, rather than being planned; I think we just have to live with it... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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