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by hawski 3470 days ago
I tried to find an explanation and only found a fellow seeker of the truth [0] that also couldn't find the answer [1]. He probably tried to search for it more than me.

I found the Apple source code for ncal [2], but no answers there. Also it is funny that Latin line has the month entered in octal (05).

[0] https://hackingtom.blogspot.de/2012/04/date-of-easter-and-nc...

[1] https://xkcd.com/979/

[2] https://opensource.apple.com/source/misc_cmds/misc_cmds-32/n...

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Damn, you stole my chance to link to the xkcd comic. Randall does have an xkcd for everything.