Re: 'cal 9 1752' and emacs calendar disagree

[Kim F. Storm]

Ed Reingold <address@hidden> writes:

> No, it is not a bug.  The odd Sept 1752 was only that way in England and her 
> colonies--not in general.  It is the Unix cal program that is in error.  The 
> Emacs calendar shows the Gregorian calendar, period.  But it allows one to 
> get 
> dates on many other calendars as well, such as the Julian.  What cal gives is 
> the first part of the month on Julian calendar and the latter part on the 
> Gregorian--that is nonsense.
>
> The date the switch was made is geographically dependent and stretched over a 
> period of hundreds of years.

For minute details, see http://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/calendar28.txt

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk