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From: jeremyr@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: why 1904?  ms excel
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Date: 7 Sep 89 11:41:46 GMT
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The reason the Mac OS chooses 1904 as its first year may have
something to do with the fact that 1900, although divisible by
4, was not a leap year.  The next year satisfying those two
criteria is 2100, so it could be that not checking for this
saved a few bytes of code...  Just a thought.

Jeremy Roussak