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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Will Your SW Make it to the year 2000?
Keywords: Julian Date
Message-ID: <438@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 89 00:26:48 GMT
References: <061089A1311@syntel.UUCP>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA
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In article <061089A1311@syntel.UUCP> dal@syntel.UUCP (Dale Schumacher) writes:
<	return(	((146097L * c) >> 2) +
<		((1461L * y) >> 2) +
<		(((153L * m) + 2) / 5) +
<		d + 1721119L );

I love it!  One question though, what in the heck is the 1721119 for?
That many days is over 4000 years.  That constant should be -68142 if
you want day 1 to be 18-Nov-1858, right?
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