3 Sep
2021
3 Sep
'21
6:03 a.m.
On 2021-09-02 19:40, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Same on Solaris 10 with the following excerpt from the man page.
NOTES
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
N.
On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 8:10:38 +1000, Dave
Horsfall wrote:
> In 1752 we switched to the Gregorian calendar, with the peasants revolting
> (as if they weren't already) because they thought they'd lost 11 days of
> their lives.
My understanding for the revolt -- though I cannot think of a reference
offhand -- was that landlords charged a full month's rent for the
reduced month.
What does
"cal 9 1752" show on your boxes?
Presumably the same as on yours:
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
I tried it on Apple and Linux box and got the same result, including
trailing spaces. In each case the man page indicates a derivation
from FreeBSD. The real question is when 259 years ago today was.
Well, we have the question every leap year on February 29.
N.
Greg
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