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From: mowl@pippin.cc.flinders.edu.au (Wolfgang Lieff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Leap year function
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.225909.26452@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au>
Date: 10 Jun 91 22:59:09 GMT
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In article <4331@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> acm@Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae) writes:
>
>It all goes to show just how fluid our calendars are.  England dropped
>those 11 days in 1752.  Other countries dropped them at other times.  Those of
>you out there trying to create the 'perfect' formula for calculating leap year
>should remember to take into account what country the calculation is for.
>
To come back to programming - I think it's clear now, that the 'perfect'
leap year function would not be a mathematical one but a communications
program dialing up a 'national time and date standard service'. And still,
how do we take care of the future ? What about the change to the decimal
(ten month/year) system in 3291 ?

Have fun,
Wolfgang

Wolfgang Lieff , mowl@cc.flinders.edu.au