From: jupiter@
Subject: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..)
Date: 1996/09/25
Date: 1996-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52amm3$1ne@acebo.sdi.uam.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52a2d6$4v7@totara.its.vuw.ac.nz
In <52a2d6$4v7@totara.its.vuw.ac.nz>, harper@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (John Harper) writes:
>Randy MacDonald <randy@godin.on.ca> wrote:
>>A more recent and complete leap year rule specifies that years
>>divisible by 4000 are common (not leap) years.
>
>No point considering this one yet. Calendars are legal matters (they
>determine when payments are due, when public holidays are, and so on)
>Unless and until some government incorporates the 4000-year rule in its
>laws, we may as well go on using the Gregorian rule
Isn't it true that the Soviet Union adopted the 4000-year rule legally?
I've read about it in one of Asimov's papers.
How is the current situation in Russia?
I assume they wouldn't have bothered to revert to the strictly
Gregorian calendar, specially since their version gets rid of that
3 days displacement every 10000 years.
Manuel Alfonseca, Universidad Autonoma Madrid
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1996-09-13 0:00 language wars (results 13 September) last posting Roy Gardiner
1996-09-13 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Robert Fahey
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Luke Chao
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Daniel J. Long
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Paul Gilmartin
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Matthew D. Healy
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-10-03 0:00 ` galina.kasminskaya
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Dave Tholen
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Clinton Pierce
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Russell Mosemann
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Russell Mosemann
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself Lee Crites
1996-09-25 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
[not found] ` <52qpqt$1b3l@ilx018.iil.intel.com>
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Glen Clark
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Daan Sandee
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jeff Drummond
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Ray Dunn
1996-09-26 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-09-27 0:00 ` CHI Research, Inc.
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-28 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Mike McCarty
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
[not found] ` <199609302101.JAA04610@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Barrie Walker
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jim Shapiro
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Matthew D. Healy
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Paul Gilmartin
1996-09-20 0:00 ` language wars (results 13 September) last posting John Girash
1996-09-20 0:00 ` John Girash
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Dr John Stockton
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` John Harper
1996-09-25 0:00 ` jupiter [this message]
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-24 0:00 ` language wars (results 13 September) last posting Andrew Gierth
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
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1996-09-25 0:00 Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Barrie Walker
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