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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What happened in 1904?
Message-ID: <9209@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 Jul 90 22:29:46 GMT
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In article <55874@microsoft.UUCP> jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE) writes:
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>But Apple *really* punted on localization by not including Moslem, Jewish,
>Japanese, Mayan and so on calendars as options.  Why shouldn't there be
>a control panel option to choose which system to show dates in? :-)

Have you ever used the Arabic Macintosh system?  The last time I looked at
the Arabic system documentation it described 3 different calendar formats.
(One of which depends on the lattitude & longitude of the user; I believe
the Map cdev originated with the Arabic Macintosh system.)  


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