[TUHS] Re: When did "man cal" lose the comment about 1752?

markus schnalke wrote in <1sTc9e-0hh-00(a)marmaro.de>: |[2024-07-15 15:52] Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> |> |>> Yeah, but if you do that you have to treat the places |>> acquired in the Louisiana Purchase differently because |>> they switched in 1582.  And Puerto Rico.  Bleh. |> |> Then there are all the German city states. And the |> shifting borders of Poland. (cal -s country) is a mighty |> low-res "solution" to the Julian/Gregorian problem. | |Several of these small entities, adopting the Gregorian calendar at |different times, you can see in this lenghty list: | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorianischer_Kalender#%C3%9Cbernahme_de\ | s_gregorianischen_Kalenders |(in German) But mostly is Katholischer Teil (Corpus Catholicorum) early (a year late) / Evangelischer Teil (Corpus Evangelicorum) of the Heiliges Römisches Reich (holy roman empire) später (18.2. -> 1.3.1700). I would say, dependent on where you are, saying goes for the former or the latter to this very day. Aka i think i recall that posted to a similar thread in the past, quoting an article from the german computer magazine c't 15/1997, back from when i still gave (lots of diversely spread) money to german journalists; that i just pasted documentation comments, and that included (it included Gaius Julius Caesar back then i think) * Whereas (parts of \ldots) Germany, for example, adopted it in 1700 (i think), * Great Britain did so in 1752; * many countries adopted it in between 1912 and 1974, on the other hand. and * Furthermore, DateTime describes itself as a set of date algorithms, * which are influenced by Timezone (and sometimes Locale) objects. * This implies that we don't know much of the country or region; * the timezone "Europe/Berlin", for example, * applies to all of Germany \e today, * which cannot be compared to the bunch of principalities which existed in the * year 1700! Now again, what a pity. I think it is remarkable as traditionally we kept it "holding on the inside", ie working ourselves out with all the little states, borders, taxes, etc., with a little bit of swinging and such dependent on "good king / bad king" time passages. Except for maybe the crusades (though good kings died before reaching the holy land imho), but even those came to an end at times. Bring the boys back home! (Which rhymes to bring the boys' backbone, in respect to the "traditional german burial" Mos Teutonicus. Hihi.) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)