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- From: tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins)
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- Subject: FILETIME and Pope Gregory XIII
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:39:06 +0000
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- In article <KEVIN.92Aug18150139@buffalobill.edscom.demon.co.uk> kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk writes:
-
- > Okay, I've got to ask this one. Sorry if it's an FAQ, but MicroSoft have
- > really set themselves up for it...
- >
- > The documentation for the FILETIME structure says it holds the number of 100ns
- > intervals since January 1st, 1601.
- >
- > Does it account for the 11 days "lost" between 2nd and 14th September 1752> when
- > the Gregorian calendar was adopted by Great Britain and her colonies> (including
- > the USA)?
-
- I doubt it very much. The calendar application under X-windos does make the
- necessary correctionS.
-
- > Also, does NT's internationalisation allow for the fact that other European
- > countries adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1582?
-
- It is really not as simple as other european countries than England and
- Wales adopting the Gregorian calendar in 1582. Scotland to bring it a
- little closer to home changed in 1600. Russia changed in 1917. Alsaka
- didn't change until the 1800s (when it was purchased from Imperial Russia).
- Many states still do not use the Gregorian calendar and for religious
- reason will NEVER adopt it.
-
- All this causes considerable problems to anyone who is trying to write
- software that really MUST work with dates that far back in time and from
- all thoe places.
-
- > Yours facetiously
-
- You might have intended it so but it as I say a REAL problem to me as I am
- writing historical analysis software.
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