[TUHS] When did "man cal" lose the comment about 1752?

Greg A. Woods woods at robohack.ca
Mon Jul 15 05:04:44 AEST 2024


At Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:53:54 -0400, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Re: When did "man cal" lose the comment about 1752?
>
> Looks like on the BSD side it disappeared between 4.3 Tahoe and Reno.  It's
> in research through v10.  It's in SVR2; SVR4 modifies it to say "An unusual
> calendar is printed for September 1752."  I don't seem to have manpages
> with either of the SVR3 source distributions that I have handy.  So to
> answer your basic question, it stayed around for quite a while.

System V Release 3.2 MRD says the same thing as SVR4:

            An unusual calendar is printed for September 1752.  That is
            the month 11 days were skipped to make up for lack of leap
            year adjustments.  To see this calendar, type: "cal 9 1752"

The "BUGS" section remains the same as it was in 7th Edition.

In the CSRG SCCS files cal(1) was "updated" after the 4.3BSD release
with this comment:

src/usr.bin/cal/SCCS/s.cal.1
	D 6.3 89/09/28 14:20:22 bostic 5 4      00042/00023/00009
	MRs:
	COMMENTS:
	new version from Kim Letkeman (mitel!spock!kim at uunet.UU.NET)

The code was also updated at the same time:

src/usr.bin/cal/SCCS/s.cal.c
	D 4.5 89/09/28 14:20:24 bostic 5 4      00222/00159/00043
	MRs:
	COMMENTS:
	new version from Kim Letkeman (mitel!spock!kim at uunet.UU.NET)

This is of course a complete rewrite to give UCB the copyright.

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