Re: Human Readable Time snipit
Re: Human Readable Time snipit
- Subject: Re: Human Readable Time snipit
- From: Walter Bushell <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:37:27 -0400 (EDT)
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O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Martin Orpen wrote:
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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Given the space constraints of the early Macintosh it was, the toolbox was
suppoesed to fit in 64K of Ram IIRC.
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