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My favorite date quirk not mentioned in the article or here yet is the month of September 1752. If you're on a *nix/Mac machine, try this command: $ cal 9 17
by SaladFork 8y ago
My favorite date quirk not mentioned in the article or here yet is the month of September 1752. If you're on a *nix/Mac machine, try this command:
$ cal 9 1752
What you'll see is:
September 1752
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
No, there's not a bug in `cal`, this is correct ;)
- rbosinger 8y agoThat was fun. So what happened in 1752? edit: I should have searched (http://mentalfloss.com/article/51370/why-our-calendars-skipped-11-days-1752 http://mentalfloss.com/article/51370/why-our-calendars-skipp...)