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diff --git a/lib/libc/time/Theory b/lib/libc/time/Theory index 0820c9f9d3d..7d38e130cb4 100644 --- a/lib/libc/time/Theory +++ b/lib/libc/time/Theory @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ -$OpenBSD: Theory,v 1.5 1999/07/01 23:05:39 d Exp $ -@(#)Theory 7.8 +@(#)Theory 7.10 ----- Outline ----- @@ -199,7 +198,8 @@ in decreasing order of importance: `-' and `_'. Do not exceed 14 characters or start with `-'. E.g. prefer `Brunei' to `Bandar_Seri_Begawan'. Include at least one location per time zone rule set per country. - One such location is enough. + One such location is enough. Use ISO 3166 (see the file + iso3166.tab) to help decide whether something is a country. If all the clocks in a country's region have agreed since 1970, don't bother to include more than one location even if subregions' clocks disagreed before 1970. @@ -318,6 +318,22 @@ off were the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th of the month. (Source: Evitiar Zerubavel, _The Seven Day Circle_) +Mark Brader reported a similar story in "The Book of Calendars", edited +by Frank Parise (1982, Facts on File, ISBN 0-8719-6467-8), page 377. But: + +From: Petteri Sulonen (via Usenet) +Date: 14 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT +Message-ID: <Petteri.Sulonen-1401991626030001@lapin-kulta.in.helsinki.fi> + +If your source is correct, how come documents between 1929 -- 1940 were +still dated using the conventional, Gregorian calendar? + +I can post a scan of a document dated December 1, 1934, signed by +Yenukidze, the secretary, on behalf of Kalinin, the President of the +Executive Committee of the Supreme Soviet, if you like. + + + Sweden (and Finland) From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) |