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- From: mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
- Subject: Re: UNIX: cal 9 1752
- Message-ID: <Bs79o0.1yC@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
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- Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
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- References: <1992Jul30.082334.2923@overload.lbl.gov> <1992Jul30.085016.11652@sfu.ca>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 11:38:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.085016.11652@sfu.ca> kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel
- Ko) writes:
-
- :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
-
- Not everyone's man pages are as descriptive, and you should not
- necessarily expect your man pages to correspond to others' man pages.
- The SunOS man page just says to "Try September 1752", and the Ultrix,
- AIX, and HP-UX man pages for "cal" don't say anything at all about
- this.
-
- ...Mike
-
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