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<div>Alas, while the current tz package can get the day-skipping part of
the Julian-to-Gregorian calendar transition right, it gets
pre-transition weekdays worng.</div><div><br></div><div>(Getting them right would require special casing for big offsets from standard time in localtime.c)<br></div><div></div><div><br></div><div> @dashdashado<br></div>
</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Script started on Sat, Nov 10, 2018 6:47:15 PM<br>$ cat fake<br>Zone America/Somewhere -268:56:02 - LMT 1752 Sep 3<br> -4:56:02 - LMT<br>$ ./zic fake<br>$ ./zdump -v America/Somewhere<br>America/Somewhere -9223372036854775808 = NULL<br>America/Somewhere -9223372036854689408 = NULL<br>America/Somewhere Thu Sep 14 04:56:01 1752 UT = Sat Sep 2 23:59:59 1752 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=-968162<br>America/Somewhere Thu Sep 14 04:56:02 1752 UT = Thu Sep 14 00:00:00 1752 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=-17762<br>America/Somewhere 9223372036854689407 = NULL<br>America/Somewhere 9223372036854775807 = NULL<br>$ exit<br>exit<br><br>Script done on Sat, Nov 10, 2018 6:47:36 PM<br></div></div>