Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!thyme!kaleb From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Why does "cal 9 1752" produce incorrect results? Message-ID: <1990Nov28.222959.589@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 28 Nov 90 22:29:59 GMT References: <1990Nov28.011932.19555@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> <1990Nov28.184933.5838@dg-rtp.dg.com> Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 19 In article <1990Nov28.184933.5838@dg-rtp.dg.com> goudreau@larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes: >In article <1990Nov28.011932.19555@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>, kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes: >> >> In the waning days of the Julian calendar usage in North America, if >> ships could make the Atlantic crossing in less than two weeks, you >> could mail a letter from London and have it arrive in New York >> before the day it was sent. > >Not likely, since 1752 was when the entire British *Empire* (not just >its colonies) switched to the Gregorian system. Most of the rest >of Europe had switched at various earlier times. Yeah, read what I meant, not what I said. -- Kaleb Keithley Jet Propulsion Labs kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov Good girls get to go to heaven, but bad girls get to go everywhere!