rogerw (05/14/82)
Has anyone reported a minor bug in the ``cal'' routine? This isn't of earth-shaking consequence, at least for the next 2018 years; however, the Gregorian calendar has recently been modified so that years divisible by 4000 are NOT leap years. This is not incorporated in ``cal.'' This makes the calendar correct to one day in 20,000 years. I have doubts whether anyone 2000-some years hence will use the Terran Gregorian; nonetheless, ``cal'' purports to be correct through 9999 CE., and strictly speaking, it is not. --Roger Wells (teklabs!tekid!rogerw)
pavel (05/16/82)
You mentioned that "the Gregorian year has recently been changed". By whom? Who makes these ex deus pronouncements? The UN? The Vatican? I feel as paranoid as Dunbar in Catch-22; "Who's 'they'?". On a related question, who makes changes in the time zone definitions? Also, does anyone know how whoever they are got the whole world to agree on them? (Or have they? Maybe I'm a victim of American propaganda...) I remember reading an article in Scientific American a while back about the time zones. Did anyone else read it and still have a copy? It probably has the answers to my questions. Pavel Curtis
rhm (05/18/82)
My repeated requests for source or authority or references to the change in the Gregorian year have gone unanswered!