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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/cal cal.1
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