Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Y2k compliance | Date | 8 Dec 1998 10:47:53 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812071504330.15609-100000@isaac.taelgar.org> By author: Mike Sackton <mike@taelgar.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Alex Buell wrote: > > >Yes, if my memory serves me right (I'm too old I guess - shh, don't tell > >Highlander about me), they dropped quite a few days, with the result that > >6th (not sure) to the 13th were entirely lost, and so at midnight on the > >6th (not sure), they jumped forward to the 14th of September. > > > [108] isaac:~ % cal 9 1752 > > September 1752 > Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa > 1 2 14 15 16 > 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 > 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 > > > *grin* > > Except cal also shows Feb 29, 1000 as existing >
Of course it did, since "cal" shows Julian calendar dates before 1752-09-14. On the Julian calendar 1000-02-29 very much did exist. On the Gregorian, no(*).
-hpa
(*) Note that the fact that the Gregorian calendar wasn't invented then doesn't make it invalid; it just means the people of that time wouldn't have used it. Note that most localities using the Gregorian calendar today weren't using the Julian calendar back then, either.
After all, I doubt Senator Cato thought of the year Carthage was destroyed as "444 B.C." :)
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