CVS commit: basesrc

[Lex Wennmacher <wennmach%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    basesrc
Committed By:   wennmach
Date:           Wed Nov  3 14:32:26 UTC 1999

Modified Files:
        basesrc/usr.bin/cal: cal.1

Log Message:
Fix a documentation bug in this man page: The Gregorian Reformation in Great
Britain and its colonies eliminated 11 days (not 10), following
September 2, 1752.

>From "A.D. 1751. Anno vicesimo quarto GEORGII II. CAP. XXIII.
      An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for
      Correcting the Calendar now in Use.":

"... and that the natural Day next immediately following the said 2nd Day of
 *September* [1752], shall be called, reckoned and accounted to be the 14th
 Day of *September*, omitting for that Time only the 11 intermediate nominal
 Days of the common Calendar;

 and that the several natural Days, which shall follow and succeed next after
 the said 14th Day of *September*, shall be respectively called, reckoned and
 numbered forwards in numerical Order from the said 14th Day of *September*,
 according to the Order and Succession of Days now used in the present
 Calendar; "

Added a caution note on using cal for very old dates.

Problem mentionned in PR 5215 by John Franklin (franklin%bev.net@localhost).

Thanks to Perry Metzger for his comments and for reviewing this man page.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -r1.7 -r1.8 basesrc/usr.bin/cal/cal.1

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
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