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- From: "James E. Fuller" <jef@ix.netcom.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Leap year
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 13:34:57 -0700
- Organization: Fuller & Stone
- Message-ID: <313CA571.3228@ix.netcom.com>
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- Harlan Messinger wrote:
- >
- > 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
- >
- Duh ....
- ..... i knew that.
-
- > 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.
- Right ... oops.
-