home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!ubc-cs!newsserver.sfu.ca!kko
- From: kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko)
- Subject: Re: UNIX: cal 9 1752
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.085016.11652@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Jul30.082334.2923@overload.lbl.gov>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:50:16 GMT
- Lines: 54
-
-
- herzog@ux5.lbl.gov (Hanan M. Herzog) writes:
- >
- >Can anyone explain why this the output of the unix calendar command when
- >applied to September 1752?
- >
- > September 1752
- > S M Tu W Th F S
- > 1 2 14 15 16
- >17 18 19 20 21 22 23
- >24 25 26 27 28 29 30
- >
-
- If you have read the manual page, you should know why ...
-
- * 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
-
- --
- Samuel Ko (kko@sfu.ca)
- The smartest netnews poster from SFU, BC, Canada ...
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Page 1 Release 4.0.1 August 1991
-
-
-
-