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- From: gusty@clark.net (Harlan Messinger)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Leap year
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 17:45:54 GMT
- Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
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- 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
-
- There wasn't a U.S. in 1752. However, Great Britain adopted it in that
- year. (-D
-
- Anyway, Britain didn't resynchronize with the heavens. They just went
- along with where the Catholic countries were on their 1582-vintage
- calendar. So, from the celestial point of view, 1582 is still essentially
- the base year we're working from.
-
-