On 06/02/18 15:45, Michael Stone wrote: >> ... and how do you deal with locales that have changed definition over >> time? What was the country code for (eg) Prussia in 1752? It just gets >> painful ... > > Yes, this is more a novelty than anything. Even apart from changing > national borders, things were seldom as uniform within a country 200+ > years ago as a single cutover date would imply, and the very concept of > "country" is anachronistic for the cutover dates in the 16th century. > But at least ncal tries. :) To bring things full circle to the date(1) > discussion, note that ncal was introduced so cal could remain > bug-compatible. Well, as the OP, to bring it properly full circle, I should be clear that I'm mostly happy with the reasons for not fixing these 'bugs'. I would just like to have seen the reason with the wontfix :-) Richard
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