Re: Human Readable Time snipit
Re: Human Readable Time snipit
- Subject: Re: Human Readable Time snipit
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:03:15 +0100
On 14 Oct 2006, at 19:04, Nigel Garvey wrote:
Unfortunately, the number of months and years depends on when you
start.
The fixed intervals larger than a day are the week and the Gregorian
cycle. :)
Whoops, yeah - I never have that length of gap between my
appointments in iCal so hadn't noticed ;-)
On the subject of time, 1/1/1904 being a "way cool" choice always
makes me chuckle:
January 1, 1904, was chosen as the base for the Macintosh clock
because it was the first leap year of the twentieth century. 1900
wasn't a leap year because leap years are skipped every 100 years for
three centuries. On the fourth century, which will be the year 2000,
the leap year isn't skipped. This means that by starting with 1904,
Macintosh system programmers could save a half dozen instructions in
their leap-year checking code, which they thought was way cool.
<http://developer.apple.com/dev/techsupport/develop.mactech/issue_28/
minow.html>
Regards
--
Martin Orpen
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