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From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Counting years
Message-ID: <451@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 16:50:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: jc3b21.451
Posted: Wed Sep  3 16:50:52 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Sep-86 06:01:55 EDT
References: <593@pyramid.UUCP> <951@hou2g.UUCP> <2292@peora.UUCP>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, St. Petersburg FL
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Summary: It's good to see some practical alternatives suggested.

In article <2292@peora.UUCP>, joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch) writes:
>         The only really elegant solution to the problem would be  to
>         move  the earth slightly closer to the sun, so that the year
>         is exactly 364 days long.  Of course you could get the  same
>         effect  by  slowing  down the Earth's rotation slightly, but
>         that would mess up all the clocks. |->
> -- 
>      Joel Upchurch @ CONCURRENT Computer Corporation (A Perkin-Elmer Company)
>      Southern Development Center
>      2486 Sand Lake Road/ Orlando, Florida 32809/ (305)850-1031
>      {decvax!ucf-cs, ihnp4!pesnta, vax135!petsd, akgua!codas}!peora!joel

It's good to see someone finally suggesting solutions to the problem
instead of just talking about the problem.  While you're at it, why not
rearrange everything so a year is made up of 100 days, each of which lasts
for 10 hours which consist of 100 minutes of 100 seconds.

Fabbian Dufoe
  350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South
  St. Petersburg, Florida  33705
  813-823-2350

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