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From: long@rainbo.enet.dec.com (Richard Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: why 1904?  ms excel
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Date: 10 Sep 89 14:03:58 GMT
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>In article <3270@wasatch.utah.edu> kessler%cons.utah.edu@wasatch.utah.edu (Robert R. Kessler) writes:
> 
>[About people wondering why the Macintosh thinks the beginning of time
>is Jan 1, 1904, and that it makes leap year computing easier.]
> 

According to a blurb I read recently, that date was picked because it was a
Sunday, thus making :

Remainder_Of (#days since 1904-date / 7) 

equal to the day of the week, where Monday = 1, etc.

HiH,
Rich

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