Polaris calendar

[Ray Butterworth]

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 09:26:21 -0400,
Darcy Maguire <dlma...@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
>I was wondering if anyone else noticed that the polaris calendars have
>July 4 as Indepedance day but Don't have anything about July 1st, for
>Canada day????

Oh, hadn't you heard?

From now on, the University will ignore all Canadian holidays
and celebrate only those that are offically recognized in the USA.

It's part of a deal recently made with Microsoft to make the
transition to life in the Pacific Northwest easier for UW's
CS graduates.

P.S. I really shouldn't have to add a ":-)",
but I have previously had similar postings taken seriously.

[Darcy Maguire]

I was wondering if anyone else noticed that the polaris calendars have
July 4 as Indepedance day but Don't have anything about July 1st, for
Canada day????

Darcy

[Chris Klein]

In article <EtxGu...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,

>Oh, hadn't you heard?
>
>From now on, the University will ignore all Canadian holidays
>and celebrate only those that are offically recognized in the USA.
>
>It's part of a deal recently made with Microsoft to make the
>transition to life in the Pacific Northwest easier for UW's
>CS graduates.

...many of whom will not have the opportunity (or the ability, for that
matter) to use Polaris more than a handful of times through their
undergraduate career.

So it doesn't make so much sense, but you were close to the right answer -
it's an implementation of Microsoft's Universal Dating Standard, just one
of their steps to remove those pesky international settings from their
products.

The next step, of course, being the forced adjustment of all English
spelling conventions to the US standard, which has had its way paved by
all those companies who don't adjust their WfW default language.

Sorta adds new meaning to "Where do you want to go today?".

But yeah - on the original issue - that's an unpleasant little oversight
on the Polaris project's part.

My 2 cents,

--Chris Klein
cdk...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca,
and many other emails that no usenet scanning spammer will ever see.

[Erick Engelke]

Chris Klein <cdk...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>Ray Butterworth <rbutte...@math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>I was wondering if anyone else noticed that the polaris calendars have
>>>July 4 as Indepedance day but Don't have anything about July 1st, for
>>>Canada day????
>>
>>Oh, hadn't you heard?
>>
>>From now on, the University will ignore all Canadian holidays
>>and celebrate only those that are offically recognized in the USA.
>>
>>It's part of a deal recently made with Microsoft to make the
>>transition to life in the Pacific Northwest easier for UW's
>>CS graduates.
>
>...many of whom will not have the opportunity (or the ability, for that
>matter) to use Polaris more than a handful of times through their
>undergraduate career.
>

> it doesn't make so much sense, but you were close to the right answer -
>it's an implementation of Microsoft's Universal Dating Standard, just one
>of their steps to remove those pesky international settings from their
>products.

The July 1 date was in the data file, but it was being ignored.

An updated Calendar program is being distributed which does not
have this problem, and is a little more useful.

>
>Sorta adds new meaning to "Where do you want to go today?".
>
>But yeah - on the original issue - that's an unpleasant little oversight
>on the Polaris project's part.

Actually, the calendar program you mentioned was a Win16 (Windows 3.11)
application which was simply copied from Watstar to Waterloo Polaris.

Just because everyone seems spooked about Microsoft tools, I compiled
this version with a compeditor's product.

The new release is year 2000 compatible.

Erick
--
Erick Engelke Engineering Computing
University of Waterloo
Manager, Networks and Systems Integration er...@uwaterloo.ca