Re: Number of days since 1/1/0001
Re: Number of days since 1/1/0001
- Subject: Re: Number of days since 1/1/0001
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:13:02 -0800
Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote
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On 11/23/01 4:20 PM, "Jason Bourque" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Just multiple the number of years by 365 then add the days of this year
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> passed. Then divide the number of years by 4 and add that number from the
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> total number of days to count for leap year. Tada, there you go.
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There's no leap year every 100 years, except that every 400 years there is.
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And the calendar has been changed several times, as someone mentioned...
Except that in 4000 there may or may not be..."we" haven't decided yet.
And the adjustments were made in different countries (using the Gregorian
calendar...others are yet another matter) at different times--at least as
recently as 1912 (Russia). In some countries more than once with an
intervening switch back to Julian. And in some, the adjustment at the time
of the Julian-->Gregorian switch wasn't quite done correctly.
There is a considerable writeup about all this in the Calendar2000 (free
trial period) supporting documents supplied by Wundermoosen.
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http://www.wundermoosen.com> Well worth the read.
And when you get all that sorted out, try to incorporate the Balinese
calendar system. On second thought: don't. Your computer would end up
going out the window for sure. [Nothing about Bali from Wundermoosen, and
that's no wonder at all.]
--John (who has no connection to moose, wonderful or not)
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA