anyone else see this , cal messed up in linux

[Shpongle]

dunno if its already been posted here already but see http://digg.com/d31DtrE

[cascade9]

Should have read the comments in your link, that is not linux 'messing up'. Its actually the way that the calender went in 1752 (in great britain, the british empire and by extension the colonies that ended up being the US). Due to changing over from the really flawed julian calender to the gergorian calender.


In Great Britain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain) and the British Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire) it began as a Julian year but was switched to a Gregorian year in September; in those countries the dates between September 3 and 13 (inclusive) did not occur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1752

[oldos2er]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

[tacantara]

To support cascade9's post, just run "cal 12 2009" and you'll see that it works just fine. Interesting post by the OP, though. I didn't know that the terminal could do that. I learn something new every day here.

[Swagman]

Interesting

I just ran cal 4 1961

and I am, indeed, a Thursdays child. Which makes sense when you consider the old rhyme ...

"Thursdays child has far to go"

I'm a Trucker !!

[starcannon]

Pretty snifty that I can look at old calendars in this fashion. Thanks for the link.

Edit: and it looks like it's not the "Linux Calendar" thats messed up, it looks like after reading the posts, wiki's and google, that September 1752 is messed up :) Changing calendars evidently requires just switching over, and so when it was switched this was a result. /shrug. In other news, my clock is off by 42.4242... seconds.

[dragos240]

Wow.

They accidentally the whole week.

[Shpongle]

i know its not messed up , just happened to see it on digg that that particular month in that year skipped a few days, but thanks for clearing it up with a valid reason