Re: Calendar invariant

[Glenn Morris]

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Instead of seeing the federal holidays in Germany I see a lot of
> so-called religious and foreign holidays:

[list of mostly standard Emacs holidays. Let's gloss over the
"so-called", shall we.]

> This is how it looks like in GNU Emacs 21.2 (GNU Emacs 21.2.1
> (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0) of 2004-10-22 on localhost, as coming with
> Mac OS X 10.3):

[list of German holidays]

> In GNU Emacs 21.2 it works fine to set the holidays to their legal
> values which has stopped with the first introduction of a version
> 21.3.

As an aside, you are not using version 21.3, you are using a
development (CVS) version, which has a (fairly meaningless) version
number of 21.3.50. The (user-visible) differences between the released
versions 21.2 and 21.3 are relatively minor.

I'm afraid I can't understand your bug report. The only difference
between the default value of `calendar-holidays' in Emacs 21.2/21.3
and the current CVS is the addition of some extra holidays through the
variable bahai-holidays.

If you don't like the default holidays, you can of course customize
them. Presumably this is how you got a list of German holidays in
21.2, since there are none in Emacs by default.

Is your problem that you tried to customize `calendar-holidays', and
what used to work in Emacs 21.2 no longer does? If so, please provide
more details of precisely what you tried to do and how it failed.

> In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d
> scroll bars)
>   of 2004-11-19 on localhost