Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!sun!arabian!jamesa From: jamesa@arabian.Sun.COM (James D. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Day of week routine Message-ID: <107107@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 30 May 89 02:01:02 GMT References: <234@zeek.UUCP> <322@xdos.UUCP> <1989May29.232954.25638@utzoo.uucp> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 23 In article <1989May29.232954.25638@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > >May 15, 1 Heisei. Last time I was there, everything was dated 63 (or was > >it 64?) Showa. > > 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... Are you sure? Even the most loyal of Japanese programmers should have anticipated outliving the aging emperor. Now a Christian programmer whose software is ready to switch to the year 1 A.A. (Anno Antichristi) ... that would be defensive programming! > -- > Van Allen, adj: pertaining to | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology > deadly hazards to spaceflight. | James Allen, interj: pertaining to dreadful hazards of unmoderated newsgroups.