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- From: jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Leap year
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 14:22:30 GMT
- Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
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- On Tue, 05 Mar 1996 00:13:27 -0700, James E. Fuller (jef@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
- : Harlan Messinger wrote:
- : >
- : > .... However, since the Gregorian
- : > calendar's synchronization was effective 1582, we shouldn't have to worry
- : > about it until around 4800 or 5000.
- : The U.S. adopted it in 1752. Try: cal 9 1752
-
- True but irrelevent. England and it's colonies dropped enough days to
- synchronize with the European countries that had adopted it in 1582, so
- the point of divergence is the same. Even that is _still_ a week off,
- since the vernal equinox was traditionally dated March 15th, not
- March 21st, but I suppose it's too late to address that now.
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