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Sami Kerola bc36e66a84 cal: mention where Gregorian reformation happen in September 1752 
In September 1752 the Gregorian reformation happen in Great Britain and
Dominions (including what is now the USA).  One could argue the cal(1)
should consider locale when determining the reformation, but such is
nearly impossible implement correctly.

The dates when reformation happen are split by areas that cannot be
expressed with current locales, for example the Netherlands is split to
two and Germany three categories depending on where in the modern country
one is.  Secondly the track when reformation happen is lost for some
countries, Lithuania or Japan are good examples of such.

One of the worst for a programmer is Sweden.  They got gradual calendar
change which made Swedish calendar to be completely out of sync.  Later
the Swedish calendar jumped in 1753 to be in sync with everyone else.

Notice that some countries, including Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Nepal, Iran
and Afghanistan, still have not adopted the Gregorian calendar.  Hence
the output of the cal(1) cannot be considered to be correct for everyone.

References: http://calendopedia.com/gregory.htm
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Gregorian_reform
Reviewed-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
 		2014-01-06 12:41:51 +01:00
Documentation docs: update links to http://git.kernel.org/ web repository views 2013-11-12 11:47:57 +01:00
bash-completion cal: added -w|--week for showing week numbers 2013-10-22 10:27:03 +02:00
config build-sys: inform gtk-doc about __ul_attribute__ 2013-03-15 14:58:08 +01:00
disk-utils fsck: add ext4 to list of filesystems with progress bars in fsck man page 2013-11-19 14:46:27 +01:00
fdisks fdisk: fix usage(), -l [<disk>] 2013-11-19 18:30:40 +01:00
include docs: update links to http://git.kernel.org/ web repository views 2013-11-12 11:47:57 +01:00
lib textual: standardize some "cannot read" and "seek failed" error messages 2013-10-09 11:37:38 +02:00
libblkid libblkid: Identify extN file system properly 2013-12-12 11:14:26 +01:00
libfdisk libfdisk: (dos) warn on type 0 2013-11-27 22:04:10 +01:00
libmount libmount: add mnt_table_uniq_fs() 2013-12-11 16:59:57 +01:00
libuuid COPYING: fix grammar of referring phrase, and indicate location better 2013-10-08 15:38:39 +02:00
login-utils man: Syntax and spelling fixes. 2014-01-06 08:55:09 +01:00
m4 build-sys: improbe UL_CONFLICT_BUILD macro 2013-08-12 12:59:22 +02:00
misc-utils cal: mention where Gregorian reformation happen in September 1752 2014-01-06 12:41:51 +01:00
mount-deprecated docs: standardize the phrases for --help and --version in all man pages 2013-10-15 10:28:30 +02:00
po po: add '--no-wrap' to msgmerge, to not wrap long message lines 2014-01-06 08:33:12 +01:00
schedutils taskset: fix PERMISSIONS section of taskset man page 2013-12-10 11:33:54 +01:00
sys-utils losetup: remove warning for unsupported -e and -E 2014-01-06 09:08:40 +01:00
term-utils script: script input redirection / eof handling 2013-12-03 13:32:55 +01:00
tests tests: cal: do not let --week=<num> to adjust requested month 2013-12-06 10:58:54 +01:00
text-utils hexdump: Create struct hexdump containing previously global variables. 2013-12-02 13:44:24 +01:00
tools build-sys: add --with-smack to config-gen.d 2013-11-12 15:48:42 +01:00
.gitignore nologin: add new command 2013-09-30 13:36:26 +02:00
AUTHORS docs: update AUTHORS file 2013-10-11 13:03:13 +02:00
COPYING docs: corrections to FSF license files, and postal address 2012-02-24 14:13:35 +01:00
ChangeLog build-sys: use AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = gnu 2011-05-26 15:04:01 +02:00
Makefile.am build-sys: install pylibmount into 2013-08-19 15:24:33 +02:00
NEWS build-sys: release++ (v2.24) 2013-10-21 14:46:27 +02:00
README docs: update links to http://git.kernel.org/ web repository views 2013-11-12 11:47:57 +01:00
README.licensing COPYING: fix grammar of referring phrase, and indicate location better 2013-10-08 15:38:39 +02:00
autogen.sh build-sys: remove unnecessary environment variable 2013-08-23 10:58:34 +02:00
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README 

                                  util-linux

              util-linux is a random collection of Linux utilities

     Note that in years 2006-2010 this project used the name "util-linux-ng".

MAILING LIST:

      E-MAIL: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
      URL:    http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#util-linux


DOWNLOAD:

      ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/


SOURCE CODE:

      Web interface:
          http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git
          https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux
      Checkout:
          git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git util-linux


NLS (PO TRANSLATIONS):

      PO files are maintained by:
          http://translationproject.org/domain/util-linux.html


VERSION SCHEMA:

      Standard releases:

          <major>.<minor>[.<maint>[.<bugfix>]]

             major = fatal and deep changes
             minor = typical release with new features
             maint = maintenance releases; bug fixes only
             bugfix = unplanned releases for critical/security bugs

      Development releases:

         <major>.<minor>-rc<N>