Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!jamesth
From: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What happened in 1904?
Message-ID: <55944@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 90 15:44:30 GMT
References: <1990Jul13.131831.26890@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <5099@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <9151@goofy.Apple.COM> <55874@microsoft.UUCP> <9209@goofy.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <9209@goofy.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>In article <55874@microsoft.UUCP> jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE) writes:
|>
|>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.)  

No, I don't read Arabic.  I want all these date schemes on my
english version.  :-)

By the way, did you notice the smiley [:-)]?  This was a joke, but
I've already been flamed by some Apple dude via email.

Lighten up, guys.


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