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Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help

From	Diego Garcia <dg@linux.rocks>
Subject	Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Date	2025-01-18 15:26 +0000
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On 18 Jan 2025 14:00:26 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> 
>> As a consequence, the Unix "cal" command defaults to
>> Sept 3, 1752:
> 
> The explanation is easy to understand: like you, the UNIX founders
> believed that the USA is all that exists. They had, like you today, very
> narrow minds. And the rest of the world struggle because of it.
>

Not quite.

The digital computer was invented in Britain and America, and for
a long time thereafter it was only the USA that produced computers.
English was the natural choice for the universal computing language
just like English is the choice for the global navigation language.

Unix began in 1969 and at that time hardware was limited in its
capability.  That's why we have ASCII because if there are only
7-bits for character representation it may as well be only English
characters.

But representing all human languages in digital form is not
a trivial undertaking.  First there were many ISO code pages
for various language groups.  Then, at the late time of 1991,
Unicode was established.

Could you have done better?

Ha, ha!  You can't even program "Hello World!" in BASIC.

established

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Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-17 20:54 +0000
  Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 12:24 +0000
    Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-18 14:00 +0000
      Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 15:12 +0000
        Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 15:14 -0600
          Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 22:21 +0000
            Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 17:40 -0500
            Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 17:18 -0600
      Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Diego Garcia <dg@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 15:26 +0000
        Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-18 22:53 +0000
          Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-19 15:35 +0000
          Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-19 15:58 +0000
            Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-24 19:40 +0000
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-24 15:36 -0500
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-24 22:27 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-24 22:55 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-24 23:35 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-25 10:43 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-25 11:24 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-25 14:06 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-01-25 14:49 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-02-07 19:00 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-25 14:33 -0600
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-26 11:21 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-26 06:54 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-24 18:23 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-25 01:00 +0000
          Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-19 17:36 +0000
            Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-20 14:03 -0600
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-20 21:05 +0000
            Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-24 20:16 +0000
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-24 16:07 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-24 22:19 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-24 17:54 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-25 01:09 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-25 10:23 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-25 06:08 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-01-25 16:51 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-25 09:07 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-25 09:16 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-25 09:47 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-25 10:28 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-26 11:01 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-27 08:34 -0500
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-24 22:37 +0000
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-25 01:04 +0000
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-25 02:14 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-25 11:05 +0000
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-28 22:30 -0500
                Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-02-01 10:19 +0000
              Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-25 11:06 +0000
      Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 15:40 +0000
        Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-18 23:12 +0000
      Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-01-18 16:45 +0000
        Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 15:28 -0600
    Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 14:39 -0600

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