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Date:      Sat, 14 Mar 2020 04:19:23 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 244801] ncal prints bogus information for Julian/Gregorian change date
Message-ID:  <bug-244801-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 244801
           Summary: ncal prints bogus information for Julian/Gregorian
                    change date
           Product: Base System
           Version: Unspecified
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: grog@FreeBSD.org

ncal -p prints a table with the transition date from Julian to Gregorian for
some, but by no means all, "countries".  It also includes an entry for the
country "Latin", with a transition date 9999-5-31.  The commit log for revi=
sion
r45064 clarifies that this is because 9999-12-12 is out of range.

It's not clear why this entry was ever added.  Many real countries (Armenia=
 and
Azerbaijan, for example) aren't in this list.  Arguably the entire
functionality should be removed; it's not needed for anything else in the
program, and more up-to-date information is now readily available on the web
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adoption_dates_of_the_Gregorian_cale=
ndar_per_country
for example).  I would suggest at least removing the entry for "Latin".

Reported by: Hamid Ali.

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