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From: evan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Evan Ron Aussenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: day-of-week algorithm
Message-ID: <19416@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 2 Sep 89 22:46:57 GMT
References: <59529@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: evan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Evan Ron Aussenberg)
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In article <59529@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> thurn@cis.ohio-state.edu (Martin 'Sulu' Thurn) writes:
[..stuff about a day of week calc..]
>  On anothother note: That year calculation turns out to be y * 365.25,
>which "makes sense" because every 4th year is a leap year.  But what about
>every 400th year is NOT a leap year?  Should there be a factor of /400ths
>in there somewhere?  My mind is a bit too boggled at the moment, but I 
>figure I have 10 years to figure it out.

I knew somewhere, I had once heard that every XXXyears the leap year is skipped.
I never could remember where I read it, and no one I told thought I was
serious.  Now, what about my other recollection that every XXXyears there
is something when we have to skip a -whole- month or something wierd like
that?  (Sorry, this isn't much about pascal)

>---Martin Thurn    thurn@cis.ohio-state.edu     73747.224@compuserve.com
>
>Disclaimer: The preceding statements are n...Wait a minute! I AM the company!


Evan

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