On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:17:50AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> On 1/3/13, Jason McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote:
> > why the need for so much detail at all? i can see that birthday entries
> > are not exactly consistent, but why not just "petrovichi, russia, 1920"?
>
> Maybe just replace "part of USSR" with "Russia":
>
> -01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 1920
> +01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now Russia), 1920
>
> because from 1917 till 1991 the Russia's official name was RSFSR:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic
>
great. we can all argue about this for ever!
netbsd: Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now Russia)
freebsd: Petrovichi, Russian SFSR
given what calendar(1) is, and looking, for example, at how
calendar.music does it (for russian entries), i'm going to change it to:
Petrovichi, Russia
tomorrow, unless another developer changes it first (which would be
absolutely fine by me).
jmc
