v04i086: Long list of entries for input to calendar(1)

Dave Taylor taylor at hplabs.HP.COM
Wed Sep 21 10:54:03 AEST 1988


well, I went through the data and found some odd things...

  Multiple date for same event conflict:

    3/7/322BC : Aristotle died
    10/2/322BC : Aristotle dies of indigestion

    3/21/1685 : Bach born
    5/22/1665 : Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Germany

    10/17/1967 : "Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater
    4/29/1968  : "Hair" premiers on Broadway

  Missing years:

     3/16 : MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by US military
  
	  [ should be 3/16/1967 and it's "MaiLai" -- fixed in our data ]

     3/29 : Death of President Barthelemy Boganda in Central African Republic
     4/28 : Zilog Z-80 introduced
     5/21 : DEC announces PDP-8
    10/15 : First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
    10/25 : DEC announces VAX-11/780
    12/20 : U.S. Buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20 sq.mi.

  And events that need some explanation -- are they legit?

    7/21/1954 : Vietnam divided at 17th parallel
    8/14/1954 : First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
    12/26/1951 : DPMA founded
    12/27/1956 : APT report published

I've added some new ones and removed the "Lord of the Rings" garbage...

I also have two handy other programs; 

   "sortdates" -- to sort the dates so that they're organized by year, 
                  least recent to most (with annual events last)

   "sameday"   -- to list all events that occured on either the current
	          day or a day specified.

Suggestions on where to post the package?

						-- Dave Taylor



More information about the Comp.sources.bugs mailing list