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From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
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Subject: Re: Why does "cal 9 1752" produce incorrect results?
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Date: 27 Nov 90 14:58:55 GMT
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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).  

Actually it's correct.  That month was shorted 13 days (or whatever)
due to calendar reform; the previous calendar was getting out of step
with the seasons, so in one fell swoop they caught up the calendar and
instituted a new leap-year strategy.

Kenneth Herron
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