Re: date %d day question

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2024-10-30T07:08:12-0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 09:08:30 +0200, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
> > To give this a marginal bash connection, I wonder if locale
> > setting affects or can handle such national variations...
> 
> Very unlikely.  Locales struggle just to handle daylight saving
> transitions, and they're allowed (practically encouraged) to ignore
> *historic* DST transitions (anything before 1970).  Though to be fair,
> DST transitions were extremely localized back then, and the locale
> maintainers want to avoid having hundreds of tiny little locales for
> the United States alone.

It's of life or death importance when casting horoscopes.  Precisely
accurate historical data about the civil calendar is essential when
determining where the Sun was at the moment of someone's birth, the
Sun's position of course not being where it appeared from the surface of
the Earth at that time, but from the vantage point of a fictitious Earth
that does not undergo axial precession and thus where the plane of the
ecliptic has not moved since the Babylonians established a system of
constellations four thousand years ago.

SERIOUS BUSINESS.  Just ask Stephen Colebourne.

I wonder if "joda" was Akkadian for "derp".

Regards,
Branden

P.S. For those wondering what the heck I'm on about, you missed one of
     the Great Dumb Spectacles in FLOSS development.

     https://lwn.net/Articles/870478/

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