Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 03:28:51 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: adam@veda.is, helbig@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/cal cal.1 Message-ID: <199712130228.DAA17626@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <199712121525.KAA08743@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Dec 12, 97 10:25:33 am"
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> Well, it's the historic date used by the UNIX `cal' program, and since > the UNIX community is still dominated by people living in Britain and > her former colonies, I would suggest against changing it. But in Britain and her former colonies the year started on March 25th, not January 1st. So cal(1) does *not* show the historic British calendar in 1752 and before. Wolfgang
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