Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Day of week routine Message-ID: <1989May29.232954.25638@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <234@zeek.UUCP> <322@xdos.UUCP> <554@drd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29 May 89 23:29:54 GMT In article <554@drd.UUCP> lawrence@tusun2.knet.utulsa.edu (Mark Lawrence) writes: >} Note that not all countries adopted the Gregorian calendar at the >} same time. (Japan was quite late, something like 19th century?) > >Just going through receipts for an expense report for a trip last >week and I spot a receipt for a train-trip to Yumoto which took place on >May 15, 1 Heisei. Last time I was there, everything was dated 63 (or was >it 64?) Showa. Two different problems. Note that it *did* say "May 15". That's the Gregorian calendar, specifying number of days in each month and when the leap-years occur. The *name* given to each year is a different story. Most of the Gregorian world uses the standard "AD" numbering, but Japan numbers from the start of the reign of the current emperor. Last time you were there, Hirohito was still alive. (Yes, he'd been emperor for over 60 years.) The mind boggles at how many programs had to be fixed to know about the new year numbering... -- Van Allen, adj: pertaining to | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology deadly hazards to spaceflight. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu