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From: koerberm@nixsin.UUCP (Mathias Koerber)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Calendar Algorithm
Keywords: calendar algorithm
Message-ID: <1115@nixsin.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 90 01:16:30 GMT
References: <140352@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <669@dbase.A-T.COM>
Reply-To: koerberm@nixsin.UUCP (Mathias Koerber)
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Howdy,

In article <669@dbase.A-T.COM> awd@dbase.A-T.COM (Alastair Dallas) writes:
>In article <140352@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, jasonf@cetemp.Eng.Sun.COM (Jason Freund) writes:
>> 	I need to be able to change dates in a database cell with commands like
>> "+4w" == "Find the closest weekday to the day 4 weeks from a certain date", 
[... stuff deleted ]
>The collected algorithms of the ACM has an algorithm for converting
[...]
>dealing with overflow into years.  The ACM book describes the weekday

What is the ACM (guess: American Computing Monthly?,A magazine or so?).
And what about the book?. Could anyone please e-mail me a short description
of what it contains, and maybe an ISBN, price etc?

Thx,

Mathias

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