From: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0000] pull: cal the branch four
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 20:23:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A2533B.9060905@bernhard-voelker.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369559650-12341-1-git-send-email-kerolasa@iki.fi>
Hi Sami,
On 05/26/2013 11:14 AM, Sami Kerola wrote:
> The cal branch I have in my git has got fixes to issues reviewed earlier,
> and I hope all works. Based on that I decided to get rid of upper cal
> year limit, 9999, and replace it with unsigned long. I know the change
> does not make much practical sense, the point of the change is that where
> there is no need to have artificial limits to a random magic number they
> should not exist.
unsigned years ... hmm, not that this would work today, but what about BC
years? E.g. on what weekday did Julius Caesar die (March 15th, 44 BC, [1])?
Maybe a future improvement (... having to make years signed again)?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
Have a nice day,
Berny
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-26 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-26 9:14 [PATCH 0000] pull: cal the branch four Sami Kerola
2013-05-26 9:14 ` [PATCH 1/4] cal: use Claus Tøndering's day of the week algorithm Sami Kerola
2013-05-26 9:14 ` [PATCH 2/4] cal: remove arbitrary limit of maxium year being 9999 Sami Kerola
2013-05-26 9:14 ` [PATCH 3/4] tests: check cal works when year is far in future Sami Kerola
2013-05-26 9:14 ` [PATCH 4/4] docs: cal: stop telling year 9999 is upper limit Sami Kerola
2013-05-26 18:23 ` Bernhard Voelker [this message]
2013-05-26 18:55 ` [PATCH 0000] pull: cal the branch four Sami Kerola
2013-05-26 19:59 ` Sami Kerola
2013-05-28 13:49 ` Karel Zak
2013-05-29 16:20 ` Sami Kerola
2013-05-28 13:50 ` Karel Zak
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