Re: NSDatePicker behaviour is odd when typing date
Re: NSDatePicker behaviour is odd when typing date
- Subject: Re: NSDatePicker behaviour is odd when typing date
- From: Michael Hall <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:13:45 -0500
On Mar 18, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
The Julian calendar assumes that Earth circles around the sun in
365.25 days, when it's actually a little bit less than that, so the
calendar came out of sync with the seasons a long time ago. The
Gregorian calendar fixes that problem by subtracting a few leap days.
Nitpick on the DatePicker I guess.
But I think Julian assumed 365 while the year is actually a little
bit more than that. Closer to 365.2525, which is why in the gregorian
there's 1 extra day a leap year and one more yet every 4 hundred years.
Mike Hall mikehall at spacestar dot net
http://www.spacestar.net/users/mikehall
http://sourceforge.net/projects/macnative
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