Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!mti!adrian From: adrian@mti.mti.com (Adrian McCarthy) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Leap Year Checker. Message-ID: <1171@mti.mti.com> Date: 2 Oct 90 21:43:16 GMT References: <24700010@sunc1> <1115.26ff47b6@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <242@srchtec.UUCP> <654522456@grad11.cs.duke.edu> <1990Sep30.001756.7403@zoo.toronto.edu> Reply-To: adrian@mti.UUCP (Adrian McCarthy) Organization: Micro Technology, Anaheim, CA Lines: 11 In article <1990Sep30.001756.7403@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <654522456@grad11.cs.duke.edu> drh@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Richard Hipp) writes: >It's still a headache when dealing with even relatively recent Russian >history, *not* helped by the Soviets' tendency to quote pre-changeover >dates using the new calendar, as if the change had happened earlier. >For example, you will often find two different dates for the birth of >historical figures like Tsiolkovskii, depending on choice of calendar. Ditto George Washington... (February 22 and 11(?)) Aid. (adrian@gonzo.mti.com)