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Re: Year 2038 problem with calendar (Bad holiday list items)


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Re: Year 2038 problem with calendar (Bad holiday list items)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:03:22 -0400

Ed Reingold wrote (on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 at 17:44 -0500):

> From the point of view of the calendar (as explained in the docs)
> ONLY THE CURRENT RULES ARE RELEVANT, even if that is historically
> wrong (there was no Thanksgiving before in the US before about 1850,
> say). Getting that correct historically is well-nigh impossible.

Historical correctness was not the intent. The intent was to fix a
bug.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html

Note how it is possible for me to convey this information to you
without shouting.





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