Philip Tellis wrote:
> try this on your linux system:
> cal 9 1752
>
> Pretty interesting display wot?
I wonder what calendar this is. As I recall it, the switchover from the
Julian to the Gregrorian calendar didn't happen simultaneously
worldwide. Britain in particular took a long time to accept it.
Oh wait, man 1 cal says that most countries had switched over by 1752,
hence that funny date. Must have been ugly implementing that patch into
cal.c.
For those who can't make sense of this, Pope Gregory of many centuries
ago discovered that the Julian calendar was off track by several days
because it failed to account for discepencies in Earth's movement. The
good pope calculated the difference in the days and also implemented
checks for preventing this from happening in the future. The leap-year
in 400 years which makes 2000 a leap year but 1900 not, is I believe,
Gregorian in origin. I also recall something about an extra day every
3000 years or so.
Sorry, read this stuff a really long time ago and don't recall it all
now. The Web should have something good on this.
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://lunateks.com
baby.sh: while true; do echo "^G^G^G^G^G"; sed -e 's/food/poop/'; sync;
sync; sleep 15; done
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