Re: What is Installjammer? (OT reply)
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 09:00:45PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On 07/20/2017 03:16 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Similarly, it is currently Thu Sep 8724 1993 (Eternal September calendar, available as sdate). Way back on September 4180, 1993, AOL ended Usenet access, the cause of the Eternal September. I'm not sure if it's best to call the next day October 1, 1993 or February 10, 2005, but either way September was finally over. Seems like a bug in the sdate package :-P I was thinking this myself but found a post by someone saying that, in essense, the damage had been done. Usenet is not, and will never be, the same as it was in August 1993. Similarly, the internet as a whole has changed fundamentally. -- For more information, please reread. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: What is Installjammer? (OT reply)
On 07/20/2017 03:16 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Similarly, it is currently Thu Sep 8724 1993 (Eternal September calendar, available as sdate). Way back on September 4180, 1993, AOL ended Usenet access, the cause of the Eternal September. I'm not sure if it's best to call the next day October 1, 1993 or February 10, 2005, but either way September was finally over. Seems like a bug in the sdate package :-P
Re: What is Installjammer? (OT reply)
That's the revolutionary calendar. On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Doug wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:53:38 From: Doug To: Stephen P. Molnar , debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What is Installjammer? (OT reply) Resent-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:53:55 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On 07/20/2017 08:54 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 07/20/2017 09:14 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le duodi 2 thermidor, an CCXXV, Stephen P. Molnar a ?crit : /snip/ Is this French? I can understand July being called something that must mean HOT, but is this year 225? Dated from when? --doug --
Re: What is Installjammer? (OT reply)
On 07/20/2017 02:53 PM, Doug wrote: On 07/20/2017 08:54 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 07/20/2017 09:14 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le duodi 2 thermidor, an CCXXV, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit : /snip/ Is this French? I can understand July being called something that must mean HOT, but is this year 225? Dated from when? --doug Darned to know where the French came from!!! -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set www.molecular-modeling.net Stochastic and multivariate (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1
Re: What is Installjammer? (OT reply)
On 07/20/2017 02:03 PM, Frank wrote: Op 20-07-17 om 20:53 schreef Doug: On 07/20/2017 08:54 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 07/20/2017 09:14 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le duodi 2 thermidor, an CCXXV, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit : /snip/ Is this French? I can understand July being called something that must mean HOT, but is this year 225? Dated from when? French revolution, most likely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermidor Regards, Frank Thanx, Frank. Does anybody actually use this? --doug
Re: What is Installjammer? (OT reply)
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 09:07:54PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le duodi 2 thermidor, an CCXXV, Frank a écrit : > > French revolution, most likely. > > Technically, "republican calandar", not "revolutionary calendar", but > you got the right reference. > > Just a whim I had and implemented when I was barely more than teenage > and never bothered to replace. Similarly, it is currently Thu Sep 8724 1993 (Eternal September calendar, available as sdate). and Sweetmorn, the 55th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3183 (Discordian calendar, available as ddate). -dsr-
Re: What is Installjammer? (OT reply)
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:53:38 -0500 Doug wrote: Hello Doug, >Is this French? Quite likely. >but is this year 225? Dated from when? Given the above, I'd say it's the French Republican (aka Revolutionary) Calendar. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Never much liked playing there anyway Banned From The Roxy - Crass pgpHJCDb6vdCf.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: What is Installjammer? (OT reply)
Le duodi 2 thermidor, an CCXXV, Frank a écrit : > French revolution, most likely. Technically, "republican calandar", not "revolutionary calendar", but you got the right reference. Just a whim I had and implemented when I was barely more than teenage and never bothered to replace. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: What is Installjammer? (OT reply)
Op 20-07-17 om 20:53 schreef Doug: On 07/20/2017 08:54 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 07/20/2017 09:14 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le duodi 2 thermidor, an CCXXV, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit : /snip/ Is this French? I can understand July being called something that must mean HOT, but is this year 225? Dated from when? French revolution, most likely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermidor Regards, Frank
Re: What is Installjammer? (OT reply)
On 07/20/2017 08:54 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 07/20/2017 09:14 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le duodi 2 thermidor, an CCXXV, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit : /snip/ Is this French? I can understand July being called something that must mean HOT, but is this year 225? Dated from when? --doug
