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Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 19:04:06 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org#avoidspam#
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> That's in agreement, more or less, with things I've heard before, and it's
> in agreement with two separate implementations of the Unix 'cal' program, so
> I'm 99.999% satisifed on that issue for now.
<URL:http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/7/0,5716,48637+1,00.html>
"an extra calendar day is added every four years, as was first done in 46
BC, with the establishment of the Julian calendar. Over many centuries,
the difference between the approximate value 0.25 day and the more
accurate 0.242 day accumulates significantly. In the Gregorian calendar
now in general use, the discrepancy is adjusted by adding the extra day
to only those century years exactly divisible by 400 (e.g., 1600, 2000).
For still more precise reckoning, every year evenly divisible by 4,000
(i.e., 16,000, 24,000, etc.) may be a common (not leap) year."
Boy, that last one is going to really confuse people 2000 years from now.
(-> .off-topic.geek)
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Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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