Why does "cal 9 1752" produce incorrect results?

[Nathan Torkington]

In article <3313 at ns-mx.uiowa.edu> khenry at umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Ken Henry) writes:
>Does anybody know why "cal 9 1752" produce incorrect
>results?  It seems to be in the Unix systems I
>checked (BSD 4.3, AIX 3.1).  

I believe there was a date change sometime, where the civilised world lost
a fortnight to allow the 'old calendar' to become the 'new calendar' which
would be in sync with the seasons ...

-Nat.
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