Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hptsug2!taylor@hplabs.HP.COM From: taylor@hplabs.HP.COM (Dave Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: v04i086: Long list of entries for input to calendar(1) Message-ID: <524@hptsug2.HP.COM> Date: 21 Sep 88 00:54:03 GMT References: <8808311442.AA08703@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: taylor@hptsug2.HP.COM Organization: Hewlett-Packard University Grants Program Lines: 45 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