From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cfd23c10fd537a80,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Geoff Bull Subject: Re: C date package Date: 2000/05/09 Message-ID: <39176D85.603D7AEC@research.canon.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 620916863 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@research.canon.com.au X-Trace: cass.research.canon.com.au 957836638 26270 203.12.174.227 (9 May 2000 01:43:58 GMT) Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 May 2000 01:43:58 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-09T01:43:58+00:00 List-Id: here are some calendar links: http://emr.cs.uiuc.edu/home/reingold/calendar-book/calendar-links.shtml Dale Stanbrough wrote: > i would disagree. In the same way that we use GMT as standard for time, we > should be able to come up with a time based system that underlies the > various views that are needed. > > After all, a date that is 30,000 days ago -is- 30,000 days ago, no matter > what calendar is used. > > 1752's interpretation could then be viewed by using a gregorian calendar > package, or a julian calendar package (i presume this is where the > difference is...).