first year that NetBSD 5.0 is out)
- add release date of NetBSD 4.0
XXX There are several UK "Bank Holidays" in calendar.holiday. Could
somebody update those and give an indication of when they are, please?
(Since "get the vote" doesn't tell much here about how a legislator
made the last vote to put this in effect.)
And so this calendar entry mentions U.S. also mention the 19th
Amendment to US Constitution.
08/15 Beatles replace drummer Pete Best with Richard Starkey, 1962
(While http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Starr
says this happened on August 16 not the 15th.)
current selection shows it's early eighties NoCal roots), if we're going to
include the births and deaths of other members of the Grateful Dead, we
should presumably include Jerry Garcia as well.
Make it so.
Pakistan), and is a variable holiday.
Update to the date of its next occurrence (since calendar(1) does not
support the Muslim calendar), and fix its description accordingly.
mishmash of anglican, catholic and other feast names included herein, use
both `Christmas' and `Feast of the Nativity' to denote this holiday.
This calendar could use serious updating, but it would be worth adding
better support for floating holidays first.
day-of-month on normal entries to always be treated as a wildcard.
Specifically, "if (x&(y|z))" is equivalent to "if ((x&y)||(x&z))", not
"if ((x&y)&&(x&z))", which latter is clearly what was intended.
* every day of the year should have at least one entry
* all entries should have been fact-checked against reliable sources,
particularly for dates
* calendar should contain a fair balance of world history -- existing
calendar, being based on that shipped in 4.2BSD, was very northern
california-centric.
This commit meets these guidelines through March 13. I will continue to
update this as time permits.
to be wildcarded.
As a side effect, this allows '**' in the date field to match every
day of the year, which is very useful for TODO items.
It's important to note that the syntax has a lot of hardcoded (and
undocumented) ambiguity resolution stuff, and is crying out for a
simplification, and maybe some use of yacc and lex.
When this is done, a minor flag day (and probably a compatibility
flag :-( ) should be included, for current users who are making
use of some of the corner cases. I'll raise this on tech-userlevel
before going there. CVS:
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