On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:40:23AM -0400, Erik Reuter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:49:19AM +0100, William T Goodall wrote: > > > Just noticed that the cal command line command and iCal (the GUI > > calendar program on Mac OS X) start to disagree around the 1752 > > Gregorian Reformation :) Going backwards that is. Oops... > > I think that iCal is probably not switching between Julian and Gregorian > on the right date. > > man cal gives this option on my Linux box: > > -s country_code > Assume the switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar at the date > associated with the country_code. If not specified, ncal tries > to guess the switch date from the local environment or falls > back to September 2, 1752. This was when Great Britain and her > colonies switched to the Gregorian Calendar.
Didn't notice the -p option the first time. Here are ncal's assumed switching dates on the ncal version on my Linux box: AL Albania 1912-11-30 IT Italy 1582-10-04 AT Austria 1583-10-05 JP Japan 1918-12-18 AU Australia 1752-09-02 LI Lithuania 1918-02-01 BE Belgium 1582-12-14 LN Latin 9999-05-31 BG Bulgaria 1916-03-18 LU Luxembourg 1582-12-14 CA Canada 1752-09-02 LV Latvia 1918-02-01 CH Switzerland 1655-02-28 NL Netherlands 1582-12-14 CN China 1911-12-18 NO Norway 1700-02-18 CZ Czech Republic 1584-01-06 PL Poland 1582-10-04 DE Germany 1700-02-18 PT Portugal 1582-10-04 DK Denmark 1700-02-18 RO Romania 1919-03-31 ES Spain 1582-10-04 RU Russia 1918-01-31 FI Finland 1753-02-17 SI Slovenia 1919-03-04 FR France 1582-12-09 SE Sweden 1753-02-17 GB United Kingdom 1752-09-02 TR Turkey 1926-12-18 GR Greece 1924-03-09 *US United States 1752-09-02 HU Hungary 1587-10-21 YU Yugoslavia 1919-03-04 IS Iceland 1700-11-16 -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
