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Date:      Fri, 12 Dec 1997 11:13:41 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        helbig@FreeBSD.ORG (Wolfgang Helbig)
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/cal cal.1
Message-ID:  <199712121113.LAA25484@veda.is>
In-Reply-To: <199712121025.CAA07570@freefall.freebsd.org> from Wolfgang Helbig at "Dec 12, 97 02:25:20 am"

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>   Modified files:
>     usr.bin/cal          cal.1 
>   Log:
>   Eleven days were eliminated by the Gregorian Reformation in 1752, not ten.

No days are missing :)

It was 10 to 13 calendar dates, depending on when the change was effected
in different countries. Isn't it rather too anglocentric to pick 1752 as
the year of transition? Is there use for specifying on the commandline
to force a particular calendar?

--
Adam David <adam@veda.is>



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