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From: Quadibloc on 20 Mar 2010 13:09 On Mar 19, 9:27 pm, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard- newsgro...(a)NTLWorld.COM> wrote: > Shhh! The Linux users' calendar has no B.C. equivalent. Don't upset > them with notions of a time before the Creation. Everyone knows the > Truth. Torvalds created 4BSD, VMS, OS/360, and the other fossils just > to give computer scientists an illusion of history. Does Linus Torvalds have a navel? John Savard
From: Seebs on 20 Mar 2010 14:30 On 2010-03-20, Lew Pitcher <lpitcher(a)teksavvy.com> wrote: > On March 20, 2010 13:26, in comp.os.linux.misc, hatunen(a)cox.net wrote: >> How can you trust a UNIX or Linux system when entering the >> cammand cal 9 1752 give asuch a goofy answer? > Either you're being disingenuous or you've missed an important part of your > education. There is very little chance, IMHO, that someone who doesn't know exactly why that result is there would offer it in this context, especially given the crossposts. On the other hand, there's a pretty good chance, given the sorts of people one finds in AFC, that the intended point is to observe that not everyone shifted calendars at the same time... -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nospam(a)seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated!
From: John Hasler on 20 Mar 2010 14:58 -s writes: > On the other hand, there's a pretty good chance, given the sorts of > people one finds in AFC, that the intended point is to observe that > not everyone shifted calendars at the same time... From the cal man page: -s country_code Assume the switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar at the date associated with the country_code. If not specified, ncal tries to guess the switch date from the local environment or falls back to September 2, 1752. This was when Great Britain and her colonies switched to the Gregorian Calen‐ dar. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: Peter Flass on 20 Mar 2010 18:05 Quadibloc wrote: > On Mar 19, 9:27 pm, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard- > newsgro...(a)NTLWorld.COM> wrote: > >> Shhh! The Linux users' calendar has no B.C. equivalent. Don't upset >> them with notions of a time before the Creation. Everyone knows the >> Truth. Torvalds created 4BSD, VMS, OS/360, and the other fossils just >> to give computer scientists an illusion of history. > > Does Linus Torvalds have a navel? > He was probably born from it, in an instance of self-creation.
From: David DeLaney on 20 Mar 2010 19:23
pk <pk(a)pk.invalid> wrote: >Hatunen wrote: >> How can you trust a UNIX or Linux system when entering the >> cammand cal 9 1752 give asuch a goofy answer? > >Uh...that answer is correct. Maybe you need to read up something about >calendar systems. GIVE US BACK OUR ELEVENTEEN DAYS! Dave "the Gregorian calendar must be REORBITED to produce a born-again LEAP SECOND" DeLaney -- \/David DeLaney posting from dbd(a)vic.com "It's not the pot that grows the flower It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK> http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K. |