Keith Christian sent the following at Monday, January 23, 2012 2:00 PM > >> cygwin sent the following at Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:39 PM > >On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] ><bbuchbin...@niaid.nih.gov> wrote: >> /c> 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 >> >> Is this a bug? > >Not a bug, see: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/gregorian1.html.
Just for the record (and my self-respect), that was a rhetorical question. (Or was it sarcastic?) 9/1752 was the transition only for Great Britain and its dependencies. See Wikipedia for other places. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Adoption> (I especially like Alaska, which combined a changed calendar with a shift of the International Dateline.) So (rhetorical) questions for the OP would be how to fix - date and cal so that they properly take into account changes to calendars in different locations. - date to account for leap seconds. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_epoch#Encoding_time_as_a_number> Also, the OP asked why a signed long integer. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Representing_the_number> - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
