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Re:UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? by SaladFork on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:40PM (#17183116)
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 ;)
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Re:UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? by rbosinger on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @06:31PM (#17183371)
That was fun. So what happened in 1752?

edit: I should have searched (http://mentalfloss.com/article/51370/why-our-calendars-skipp...)

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