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

Jaap Akkerhuis via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Tue Jul 16 06:02:42 AEST 2024



> On 15 Jul 2024, at 21:04, Ken Thompson <kenbob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> it is worse than "per country",
> alaska changed when the u.s.
> bought it from russia.

Also note that the ISO country codes standard is from 1974.  I guess
that is why the FreeBSD ncal states that

	"The assignment of Julian–Gregorian switching dates to
	country codes is historically naive for many countries."

What we call countries nowadays has changed over the years (and
centuries).

	jaap



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