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Re: does Calendar understand DST rules for past years?
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: does Calendar understand DST rules for past years? |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:53:16 -0500 |
It seems that the best thing to do is simply delete this paragraph:
> The dates used by Emacs for holidays are based on @emph{current
> practice}, not historical fact. Historically, for instance, the start
> of daylight savings time and even its existence have varied from year to
> year, but present United States law mandates that daylight savings time
> begins on the first Sunday in April. When the daylight savings rules
> are set up for the United States, Emacs always uses the present
> definition, even though it is wrong for some prior years.
(I see no need to document in the manual the possibility of
setting calendar-dst-check-each-year-flag to nil.)
Do you see any problem with that solution?
Any more that needs to be done?