On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 06:47:41PM -0600, zowie wrote:
> There is also a certain joy that comes from noticing that a tool was
> designed by pedants:
> it's great that cal(1) handles the Gregorian reformation correctly
> (or at least, in one
> of several arguably correct ways) even though most of us don't deal
> with dates in 1752.
I disagree:
$ LC_ALL=es_ES cal 9 1752
septiembre de 1752
do lu ma mi ju vi sá
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Spain adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1582. Surely setting my locale to
Spain should make the Julian/Gregorian jump show up in 1582, not 1752?
I think that this demonstrates how tricky all this mess is.
Nicholas Clark
