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Article #534Re: bug in cal(1)
From: ed
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1987 00:06
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1987 00:06
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>> That is despite what 'cal' says about the
>> output only being good for the UK and its colonies, if you go back that
>> far in history dates get hard to deal with.
>
>But "the UK" means "the United Kingdom [of Great Britain and Northern
>Ireland]". I'm not sure when the UK, as a political title and entity,
>was created.
The man page for cal - on 4.3 BSD and as far back as I can remember -
says "for England and her colonies," not for the UK.
Nonetheless, I find difficult to accept the notion that the well-documented
behavior of a program is a bug. Perhaps it is badly designed, but
it is not wrong. (There may well be a bug in the output cal produces for
years before 1752, but this is not what the original poster cited.)
--
Ed Gould mt Xinu, 2560 Ninth St., Berkeley, CA 94710 USA
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