bug in cal(1)

[mcdaniel at uicsrd.UUCP]

>   It depends.  There is historical evidence showing that the Celtic
> calendar had 8-day weeks.  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.
> Bob Devine

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.  It was surely not earlier than the accession to the
throne of England of King James the 6th of Scotland, who became King
James the 1st of England, the first Stewart King of England.  Since
this was about 1603, the "cal" man page is correct on that point.

     :-)

(P. S.  Anybody know the exact date and manner of the UK's formation?
How about Great Britain?  Mail me, please.)

--
Tim McDaniel; CSRD at the Silicon Prairie
(Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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