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From: Nathan.Torkington@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
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Subject: Re: Why does "cal 9 1752" produce incorrect results?
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Date: 27 Nov 90 11:02:12 GMT
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In article <3313@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> khenry@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Ken Henry) writes:
>Does anybody know why "cal 9 1752" produce incorrect
>results?  It seems to be in the Unix systems I
>checked (BSD 4.3, AIX 3.1).  

I believe there was a date change sometime, where the civilised world lost
a fortnight to allow the 'old calendar' to become the 'new calendar' which
would be in sync with the seasons ...

-Nat.
[   Death@comp.vuw.ac.nz aka Blackadder@st1.vuw.ac.nz aka Nathan Torkington   ]
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