Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!freja.diku.dk!rimfaxe.diku.dk!thorinn From: thorinn@rimfaxe.diku.dk (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Why does "cal 9 1752" produce incorrect results? Message-ID: <1990Nov28.103455.24159@diku.dk> Date: 28 Nov 90 10:34:55 GMT References: <3313@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <1990Nov27.110212.131@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1990Nov28.011932.19555@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: news@diku.dk (The Netnews System) Organization: Department Of Computer Science, University Of Copenhagen Lines: 11 kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley ) writes: >Daniel Boorstin, in his book "Discoverers" mentions that American >landlords wanted the full months rent for that September, while all the >tenents wanted to pay only two weeks rent. Can't imagine why? Probably because they only got two weeks' pay. -- Lars Mathiesen, DIKU, U of Copenhagen, Denmark [uunet!]mcsun!diku!thorinn Institute of Datalogy -- we're scientists, not engineers. thorinn@diku.dk