Re: Day of week question

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 05:51:47PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Perhaps we need a function or two to convert pre-gregorian dates to
> gregorian dates and vice versa, with the cutover date either a
> configuration variable (default the 1752 date) or a parameter of the

I guess that's one of the problems. :-)

Why shall 1752 be the default date? The original introduction of
gregorian dates after all was in 1582. And some parts of the earth
didn't switch before the 20th century. So, as pointed out, we'd need a
locale dependant default.

Michael
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