Hello Felix, On 16 June 2015 at 00:04, Felix Neumann <felix.neumann@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > in the man page for cal there's a small error in section "bugs": > > cal program uses the 3rd of September 1752 as the date of the > Gregorian calendar reformation -- that is when it happened in Great > Britain and its colonies (including what is now the USA). Ten days > following that date were eliminated by this reformation, so the > calendar for that month is rather unusual. The actual historical > dates at which the calendar reform happened in all the different > countries (locales) are ignored. > > It should read "Eleven days following" instead of "Ten days > following", as the jump is from September 3rd to 14th. (cf. output of > cal 9 1752). > > I checked the man page on > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cal.1.html as well as my CentOS 6 > installation. > > I apologize for not submitting in the preferred format for patches, > that's my first report. This bug needs to be reported elsewhere. See http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cal.1.html#COLOPHON Thanks, Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
