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| author | Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> | 2020-01-15 21:41:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> | 2020-01-15 21:41:39 -0700 |
| commit | 06c6ab430b223f6923fe74a4b8d11f3e626848a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b483acf3ec2da573992c20b766a480e22f4c45a /imap/docs/calendar.txt | |
| parent | 9822842646bc2b940d4b98a260ee4e3ac26fce57 (diff) | |
| download | alpine-06c6ab430b223f6923fe74a4b8d11f3e626848a8.tar.xz | |
* Fix a number of misspellings in the source code of Alpine. I hav only
fixed those that belong to the source code of Alpine and do not come
from an external source. List contributed by Jens Schleusener.
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| -rw-r--r-- | imap/docs/calendar.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/imap/docs/calendar.txt b/imap/docs/calendar.txt index c1009078..63aaa68b 100644 --- a/imap/docs/calendar.txt +++ b/imap/docs/calendar.txt @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Caesar). Months in the Julian calendar were 30 or 31 days in length and every fourth year was made a leap year (having 366 days) by adding a day -to the end of the year. This leap year rule was not consistantly +to the end of the year. This leap year rule was not consistently applied until 8 CE. The year-ending month of February, never a popular month, was presently shortened so that Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus could each have long months named after them. @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ calendar. This suggestion was adopted over the next 500 years and subsequently followed in the Gregorian calendar. For the benefit of those who seek religious significance to the -calendar millenium, note that year 1 is too late by at least 4 years. +calendar millennium, note that year 1 is too late by at least 4 years. Herod the Great, named in the Christian Bible as having all children in Bethlehem put to death in an attempt to kill the infant Jesus, died in 4 BCE. @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ centuries yet. There is code in c-client to support the modified Gregorian calendar, although it is currently disabled. Sometime in the next 2000 years, someone will need to enable this code so that c-client is -Y4K compiliant. Then, 18,000 years from now, someone will have to +Y4K compliant. Then, 18,000 years from now, someone will have to tear into c-client's code to fix the Y20K bug. @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ adjustments will be necessary at that time. Hence my use of "or so" in predicting the years that the calendar will fall behind. The actual point may be anywhere from decades (in the -case of Y3.3K) to millenia (in the case of Y40K) off from these predictions. +case of Y3.3K) to millennia (in the case of Y40K) off from these predictions. MEANINGS OF DAY NAMES |