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

markus schnalke meillo at marmaro.de
Tue Jul 16 16:59:18 AEST 2024


Hoi.

[2024-07-15 15:52] Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu>
>
> > Yeah, but if you do that you have to treat the places
> > acquired in the Louisiana Purchase differently because
> > they switched in 1582.  And Puerto Rico.  Bleh.
> 
> Then there are all the German city states. And the
> shifting borders of Poland. (cal -s country) is a mighty
> low-res "solution" to the Julian/Gregorian problem.

Several of these small entities, adopting the Gregorian calendar at
different times, you can see in this lenghty list:
	https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorianischer_Kalender#%C3%9Cbernahme_des_gregorianischen_Kalenders
(in German)


meillo


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