bug in cal(1)

[ed at mtxinu.UUCP]

>> That is despite what 'cal' says about the
>> output only being good for the UK and its colonies, if you go back that
>> far in history dates get hard to deal with.
>
>But "the UK" means "the United Kingdom [of Great Britain and Northern
>Ireland]".  I'm not sure when the UK, as a political title and entity,
>was created.

The man page for cal - on 4.3 BSD and as far back as I can remember -
says "for England and her colonies," not for the UK.

Nonetheless, I find difficult to accept the notion that the well-documented
behavior of a program is a bug.  Perhaps it is badly designed, but
it is not wrong.  (There may well be a bug in the output cal produces for
years before 1752, but this is not what the original poster cited.)

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