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From: marcos@allanon.UUCP (Marcos Della)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Leap year function
Message-ID: <a4Dy31w164w@allanon.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 91 23:48:21 PDT
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Organization: Allanon's Bar & Grill

acm@Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae) writes:
>In article <JPRD34w164w@allanon.UUCP>, marcos@allanon.UUCP (Marcos Della)
>> how about changing it to the following:
>> ...
> 
> But it *doesn't* clear up the 1722 problem.  (In 1722, eleven days were
> dropped out of the month of September.)
> 

You know, I didn't know about the 1722 year.  What month did they drop out the
days from?  Or did they just shorten all the months except February.

Also, why the heck di they do it and why that particular year?

Marcos


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