<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">My instance of cal (MacOS 14.5) has this in the man page:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;background-color:rgb(255,255,10)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(0,0,0)">-s</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> </span><span class="gmail-s3" style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">country_code</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;background-color:rgb(255,255,10)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Assume the switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar at the date</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;background-color:rgb(255,255,10)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>associated with the </span><span class="gmail-s3" style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">country_code</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>If not specified, </span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(0,0,0)">ncal</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> tries</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;background-color:rgb(255,255,10)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>to guess the switch date from the local environment or falls back</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;background-color:rgb(255,255,10)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>to September 2, 1752.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>This was when Great Britain and her</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;background-color:rgb(255,255,10)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>colonies switched to the Gregorian Calendar.</span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Note that the switch to the Gregorian calendar happened at different times in different countries. In Catholic-dominated countries it happened in October of 1582. The English-speaking world, being Protestant-dominated, waited until September of 1752 to adopt it.</div></div><div>=====<br><a href="http://nygeek.net" target="_blank">nygeek.net</a></div><div><a href="https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home" target="_blank">mindthegapdialogs.com/home</a><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 9:25 PM Dave Horsfall <<a href="mailto:dave@horsfall.org">dave@horsfall.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The manpage for "cal" used to have the comment "Try September 1752" (and <br>
yes, I know why); it's no longer there, so when did it disappear? The <br>
SysV fun police?<br>
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I remember it in Ed5 and Ed6, but can't remember when I last saw it.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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-- Dave<br>
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