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- From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
- Subject: Re: find the number difference of dates
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.192611.11668@sq.sq.com>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- References: <1992Dec11.103710.1@sysjj.mdcbbs.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 19:26:11 GMT
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- > regardless of leapyears, days in the month, etc: there are always 24 hours
- > in a day and 3600 sec in a day.
-
- I haven't seen a followup correcting this yet -- perhaps several others
- are on their way here. But in case someone archived the quoted article
- and in the future is going to mindlessly copy that conversion factor,
- I point out that the last word "day" should be *hour*. There are 86400
- seconds in a day. (Except for days with leap seconds, but those are
- irrelevant to this calculation.)
-
- We now return you to Klah. :-)
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- Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto "Beware the Calends of April also."
- utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com -- Peter G. Neumann
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