From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 2 4:54:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB6FD150E8; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 04:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA55461; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:51:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:51:42 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Greg Lehey Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , Nik Clayton , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Coronations (was: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars calendar.history) Message-ID: <19990802115142.A54968@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <199908011954.MAA54650@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990802101401.H64532@freebie.lemis.com> <19990802074955.C54109@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <19990802160559.T64532@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990802160559.T64532@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:05:59PM +0930 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:05:59PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 2 August 1999 at 7:49:55 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > * Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.com) [990802 04:13]: > >> On Sunday, 1 August 1999 at 12:54:02 -0700, Nik Clayton wrote: > >>> nik 1999/08/01 12:54:02 PDT > >>> > >>> Modified files: > >>> usr.bin/calendar/calendars calendar.history > >>> Log: > >>> Richard the Lionheart was crowned on 3rd September 1189, not the 27th > >>> February. > >> > >> I'm glad to see we're finally getting the serious bugs out. > > > > Nik did do better research then some of us do or did. > > > > [like my fantastic crashdump and no debugging kernel =P] > > > > Anyways, 't was fun to read ;) > > Definitely. Of course, this has meant that I have had to follow it up > with my own investigations. Since he was a Frenchman, I looked up a > French source, unfortunately not a very good one, but they claim he > became king in 1184, not 1189. They do agree that his father died (of > chagrin) in 1189, so it's not clear why they say 1184. Is this a > misprint, or did he abdicate? Must be a misprint. Every source I looked at said 1189, and Henry II definitely snuffed it in 1189, so Richard couldn't possibly have become king before then. I'm considering carrying on the theme -- Satoshi has his ports INDEX module and prime numbers quirk, I have kings and queens of England. . . N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message