On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 03:58:25PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
Specifically: The "calendar"/"clock" application in the Gnome panel is incorrect for the year 1752 (and therefore for all preceding years).
Oh, yes... hmmn, doesn't do Julian > Gregorian correctly... I wonder what Windows does, oh... how disappointing, Windows only does 1980 > 2099 how rubbish ;)
It is described as the "Clock Applet", and its Help only describes its time functions. However, when you left-click on it a calendar comes up, which is what I'm referring to. This is not described anywhere that I can find. Nor can I locate what program is executed for the "Clock Applet".
It is part of the Gnome Panel package on my Ubuntu box.
Any thoughts? [trivial question of course...]
I'm guessing that it was programmed badly not using the standard libraries for doing this kind of thing, but far more importantly how on earth did you discover this? Given that I had to hold down the mouse button for nearly a minute to scroll back to 1752! You do know about the program cal don't you? As I compared the output from gnome calendar to the output from the command cal 1752.
Adam