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From: =?UTF-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane?= CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr>
Subject: Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help
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Le 18-01-2025, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
> On 18 Jan 2025 14:00:26 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>
>> 
>> For your
>> information, at that time, Britain possessed only a part of north
>> America. So when the British colonies switched to Gregorian calendar,
>> most of the Americas were already using it.
>> 
>
> It is all a consequence of the Protestant-Catholic split.

Yes, I know that, it's that obvious I believed that even an illiterate
like you would knew that and I didn't need to spell it.

> France was a Catholic nation and was forced by the popes to adopt
> the GC.

Yes but no. France wasn't forced, but it was the good thing to do and
did it because following the Pope wasn't an issue for them. Unlike
England which preferred to be at odd with the reality than following the
Pope.
 
> Britain, however, was Protestant and tended to reject Catholic
> ideas.
>
> So I don't need your fucking information.

In fact, you did. You changed the subject to run like Forrest GUMP, but
I know why I wrote that. You said that Americas changed the date when it
was only a part of north America which did. The Americas were colonies of
Portugal, Spain, France and England at that time. And England was far
from having the broader part of it. And it was the only protestant part
when the other parts already switched to the Gregorian calendar.

> I am only concerned with the reason Unix/Linux/GNU has chosen 1752 for
> its default.

No, you were speaking about the Americas, when your sentence concerned
only a limited portion of it. And your vision of the world reflects
exactly what I spoke in another message: as a real limited American, you
don't consider anything outside of the USA as existing. And that's the
reason you can't understand that if you belong to one of the greatest
nation of the world you are heated by the rest of the world. It's
because you consider everything outside of America as your colony, not
because everyone is jealous of you.

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