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Re: Year 2038 problem with calendar (Bad holiday list items)
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Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Re: Year 2038 problem with calendar (Bad holiday list items) |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:03:22 -0400 |
Ed Reingold wrote (on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 at 17:44 -0500):
> From the point of view of the calendar (as explained in the docs)
> ONLY THE CURRENT RULES ARE RELEVANT, even if that is historically
> wrong (there was no Thanksgiving before in the US before about 1850,
> say). Getting that correct historically is well-nigh impossible.
Historical correctness was not the intent. The intent was to fix a
bug.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html
Note how it is possible for me to convey this information to you
without shouting.