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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Happy New (Year|Decade)!
Message-ID: <254@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jan 90 22:44:54 GMT
References: <9178@cbmvax.commodore.com> <B$gsry@cs.psu.edu>
Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Tempe, AZ
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In article <B$gsry@cs.psu.edu> bralick@cs.psu.edu (Will Bralick) writes:
>In article <9178@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>Wow!  I just noticed that it's the last day of both the year and the 
>>decade.
>
>I hate to contradict anyone :-), especially Dave, but ...
>Much to the chagrin of C programmers everywhere, there was no 
>year 0 A.D., so we will have to wait 366 days to reread this
>message.

Well, my dictionary defines a decade as "a period of ten years" without
saying anything about alignment restrictions.  Thus I guess you could
argue that every second marks the end of SOME decade.  The ones that
end at midnight on Dec 31st, of years ending in 9 are probably the
most celebrated ones.  :-)

Happy New Year everyone!   (sorry about prolonging a nonamiga topic)

-Fred
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