From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f7be1,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gidf7be1,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 11390f,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: fa0ae,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Subject: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Date: 1996/09/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 184752599 sender: news@cwi.nl (The Daily Dross) references: <3242D1EB.3F54@ford.com> <32462521.76DD@godin.on.ca> organization: CWI, Amsterdam newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.rexx,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.smalltalk Date: 1996-09-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <32462521.76DD@godin.on.ca> randy@godin.on.ca writes: > The additional 4000-year rule is described in Guy Ottewell's > "The Astronomical Companion", 1979, Furman University, Greenville, > SC, USA, Telephone (803) 294-2208. That it is described there does not make it a rule. It has been a proposal by the American Astronomical Society, but it *never* made it to a rule (although some older editions of the Encyclopedia Brittanica mention it as a rule). -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924098 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/