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From: mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Day of week routine
Summary: Japan?  Gregorian Calendar?
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Date: 25 May 89 19:37:02 GMT
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flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) wrote:
....
} Note that not all countries adopted the Gregorian calendar at the
} same time.  (Japan was quite late, something like 19th century?)

Just going through receipts for an expense report for a trip last
week and I spot a receipt for a train-trip to Yumoto which took place on
May 15, 1 Heisei.  Last time I was there, everything was dated 63 (or was
it 64?) Showa.