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- From: zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: STATUS File
- Message-ID: <F3yDuB4w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 08:52:38 CST
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- randall@proteus.qc.ca (Randall Reid) writes:
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- [formula and other stuff deleted]
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- > The subtraction of 7 hours from the formula seems to yield the correct result
- > although I don't understand the significance of this number. I arrived at
- > it purely by emperical means.
- >
- > So, can someone tell me if and where I'm going wrong in this formula. I
- > can't help but think that the calculations for leap years must be more
- > complex.. perhaps requiring some modulo arithmetic. And I don't understand
- > why subtracting 7 hours seems to work.
- >
- My guess is that the 7 hours is the adjustment to your time zone to get to GMT
- and that is why the 7 hours. For other time zones I would think it would be
- 5 or 6 hours etc.
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- Greg
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