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Er, Mother's Day was back in March. At least it was in the civilised world  .
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Oops - you are right!
(I don't notice it, both my mother and Herself's passed away years ago)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I believe that Mother's Day is celebrated on different dates in different countries.
This article[^] is in Swedish, so I'll translate the most important part:
Mother's Day is celebrated in most countries in the world, but on very different dates, in Sweden, we celebrate Mother's Day on the last Sunday in May just like Morocco and France for instance. In the USA, Finland and Denmark amongst others, the day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May, and in Norway, Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of February.
According to this, the date for celebration of Mother's Day has something to do with when the flowers (the traditional Mother's Day gift) are in bloom in the given countries...
(Note: I didn't write the text, so I give no guarantee for the accuracy of any of the information)
No doubt, other countries not mentioned in this text can have their own celebration dates...
What I don't understand, though, is why the OP chooses to congratulate his mother in THIS forum... 
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Johnny J. wrote: According to this, the date for celebration of Mother's Day has something to do with when the flowers (the traditional Mother's Day gift) are in bloom in the given countries...
after the quote-block noted that in Norway it's the second Sunday in February.
Do I have the climate (or hemisphere) confused, or is that when the first flowers defrost?
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As I said (and that's partly why I said it): I didn't write the text, so I give no guarantee for the accuracy of any of the information
I completely agree that it sounds stupid when coming to Norway, but it might be accurate for other countries, what do I know (or care for that matter )?
There's always someone who has to be a smart-ass, isn't there? And I don't like that when it's not me...
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Keep in mind that there is a massive flower market in Amsterdam that imports flowers from all over the globe for distribution throughout Europe. Yes, I too found that unbelievable - but apparently it's true! Maybe Mark or other CPians in the Netherlands can confirm.
So: Countries in Europe can celebrate any special day with flowers, any day of the year! 
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Quote: I believe that Mother's Day is celebrated on the wrong day in countries other than the original and best.
FTFY
Quote: It's not that they're wicked or naturally bad
It's knowing they're foreign that makes them so mad!
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I believe that maybe you posted this reply to the wrong post. her of the quotes are mine, anyway?!?!?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: ...in the civilised world
You mean Ireland and Nigeria? Indeed!
Reference[^].
I ain't got no signature.
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Quote: You mean Ireland Zimbabwe and Nigeria
FTFY
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Er, Mother's Day was back in March. At least it was in the civilised world .
Hi,Mother's Day is celebrated on different dates in different countries.
Our Country celebrating on this May 10th.
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Mother's Day seems to be some cheap advertising gimmick, just to sell some merchandise.
Every day is Mother's Day.
modified 6-May-15 6:38am.
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Giving your mother some nice flowers and a card once a year isn't that bad, is it?
And:
Everyday is Children's day, not Mother's day!
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IMHO, this is geography-dependent.
I stayed with my mother till her passing a year ago. So, nothing like flowers and a card once a year; she was with me every day, so what flowers are we talking about. Till her end, she planted flower saplings and grew flowers in our small garden; there were flowers every day - jasmine, rose, petunia, balsam, ipomea, parijata*, nandi-battalu*, etc.
* Local names of these flowers.
I live in the southern part of India, and this situation is quite common here, but changing slowly.
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..."How hard can it be to make a compliant email client?"
Well, to put it simply, rather hard.
Still, I am going on with this project to try and make a very useful and compliant email client.
I am using DevExpress WinForms controls, but I am using GeckoFX as the editor and MailKit/MimeKit for the email handling. Using the latter two libraries also gives me PGP encryption/verification/signing at no extra charge, as well as pretty much complete compliance with ALL email related standards, with a number of extensions as well.
I am also using another library from the guy behind {Mail|Mime}Kit that performs standards-compliant verification of email addresses, even those with non-ascii characters in them.
I am also thinking of having an Exchange integration plugin, but I want to know if anyone would use it.
Any other feature suggestions? I am currently planning on:
* Email (Obviously)
* Contacts (Kind of a given)
* Calendar (A plugin)
* Notes (Not too sure)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I have been slowly building components similar to what you described:
- Email
- Contacts
- Calendar
- Chat
- ToDo
- Notes
I'M using WPF. If you're interested, why not collaborate and come up with a really decent client together?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Calendar: personal? group? accept and send invitations? reminders?
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I was planning on multiple calendars on one account (and pulling in calendars from other places/accounts).
On the invitations, how would those work? Through an email message? Or some other way?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Yep, an item is placed on your calendar; you send an invitation to various people.
When they accept, the entry is placed on THEIR calendar.
It may be a joint meeting with contact information (phone number, place, agenda, etc) or just that you have an appointment and won't be available.
For example, I have a meeting tomorrow; I send the invite to my colleagues, then they can from their calendar where I am (or am not).
I have bi-weekly standing meetings with a group of people; an agenda and call-in number are provided in the invitation.
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Ah, OK. I'll look into that.
So the acceptance should send an email back (with content like 'Accepted')?
And a very good (and useful) idea.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Yes, or the recipient can reject or propose a different time.
I'll look at the options in the morning when I'm at work.
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I am guessing you use Outlook at work. I have Outlook, so I will toy around with it and see what's what.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: On the invitations, how would those work? Through an email message? Or some other way?
There is a standard format for these known (unfortunately - especially in these iThing days) as ICalendar[^]
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I think a great feature would be the ability to export the email in csv format, something Outlook doesn't do.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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