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From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Gregorian Calendar start
Message-ID: <1990Oct19.011937.4931@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 19 Oct 90 01:19:37 GMT
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In article <18557@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>In article <1990Oct15.013318.19836@tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) writes:
>>In article <1990Oct13.101434.21356@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
>>>But we'll see how *they* like being one day out of step, beginning on
>>>March 1 (Gregorian), 2200...
>>It isn't necessarily a problem.  One would think that along the International
>>Date Line, ...
>There's a difference, though.  The result of the IDL skew is that when it's
>Thu 08-May in one location it's Fri 09-May in another.  The result of a
>not-quite-Gregorian calendar is that it would be Thu 08-May in one location
>and Thu 09-May in another.  You couldn't buy a calendar in country X and use
>it in country Y!

Ah, I see the difference.  But msb's problem (most significant problem :-)
also isn't so difficult.  I hung a small calendar on one of my terminals.
For today's date it says in large characters "19", and in small characters
(roughly) "old 9th-month 1st-day".  It is metal-weekday (Friday) under both
the old calendar and the modern calendar.  I would guess that the old calendar
was imported from China, and the old 1st-month 1st-day would coincide with
Chinese New Year.
I understand that in the middle-east (on various sides of various battles),
the month number and date number also differ from those in western countries,
and possibly from each other.
-- 
Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC    diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
                                    (tkou02 is scheduled for demolition)
We steer like a sports car:  I use opinions; the company uses the rack.