16 Jul
2024
16 Jul
'24
2:02 a.m.
On 15 Jul 2024, at 21:04, Ken Thompson
<kenbob(a)gmail.com> wrote:
it is worse than "per country",
alaska changed when the u.s.
bought it from russia.
Also note that the ISO country codes standard is from 1974. I guess
that is why the FreeBSD ncal states that
"The assignment of Julian–Gregorian switching dates to
country codes is historically naive for many countries."
What we call countries nowadays has changed over the years (and
centuries).
jaap