Talk:Cal (Unix)

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Does the interesting output of cal, when called for september 1752, deserve mentioning? It is:

$ cal 9 1752
   September 1752
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
       1  2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30

The situation is related with leap year issue.

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[edit] cal 9 1752

cal 9 1752 _does_ deserve mention as it has a very interesting story. it isn't related to leap-year at all, but rather has to do with a bug in the original cal code. Instead of fixing the copies of code that had been already distributed, representatives from AT&T convinced the vatican to remove those days from history.

lol, very funny! But I'd better put in a warning that this isn't true, just incase anybody should think that.... :o

Mathmo 10:04, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Julian

While we are on 1752 shouldn't the Julian calendar be mentioned too? Mathmo 10:07, 28 March 2006 (UTC)