From: Farley Flud Subject: Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <678bb3fa$0$545$426a34cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 24 Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!news.1d4.us!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.usenetexpress.com!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:40:57 +0000 Nntp-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:40:57 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 1258 Organization: UsenetExpress - www.usenetexpress.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetexpress.com Bytes: 1618 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. France was a Catholic nation and was forced by the popes to adopt the GC. Britain, however, was Protestant and tended to reject Catholic ideas. So I don't need your fucking information. I am only concerned with the reason Unix/Linux/GNU has chosen 1752 for its default. -- Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.