@kees I first encountered mention of Pope Gregory XIII in code in an early version of Perl's strftime() in perl5's codebase (before Perl's POSIX module existed — circa 1994-ish).
I do not have time (ha!) rn to find Larry Wall's comment, but was something like: “formatting dates before 1582 is a highly political question relating to the Protestant Reformation & Pope Gregory XIII“.

I now ponder why Rockchip doesn't implement instead Eastman's International Fixed Calendar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

@kees Not exactly Vogon, but I gave it a go earlier:

Thirty days has September,
April, June, and remember,
the eleventh month has thirty too,
unless a Rockchip CPU,
in which case you must count one more,
or use a patch to address the flaw.

@kees Not sure if Julius ever expected to become immortalized because of his commit message that explains a workaround to a silicon bug...

He definitely put in the effort, though.

@kees
Seems like if an halloween-ist people working for Rockchip try to take one more day to keep their decoration up before the christmas-ist people force them to Christmas decoration.

"Look it's still november, december is not there yet!"