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: 11390f,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: fa0ae,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: Matthew.Healy@yale.edu (Matthew D. Healy) Subject: Re: language wars (results 13 September) last posting Date: 1996/09/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185468968 distribution: inet references: <521ebg$k80@news1.halcyon.com> <528lab$6af@mill.gdls.com> organization: Yale Center For Medical Informatics 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: 1996-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <528lab$6af@mill.gdls.com>, schwarza@gdls.com wrote: > summary of the statistics. It seems that the conjecture that Friday the > 13th (or any other day) occurs more frequently / less frequently than > anything is demonstrable, so demonstrate. > But it is not possible, fundamentally not possible, that a general answer to this debate could exist! In most flavors of Unix, you get the following result when you say "cal 9 1752" September 1752 S M Tu W Th F S 1 2 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 because it was in 1752 that the British Empire (including of course their American Colonies) changed from the old Julian calendar -- leap year every fourth year -- to the current Gregorian calendar -- a year ending in 00 is a leap year if and only if it is a multiple of 400 because 365.25 days is a little bit too long. However, the change was made at different dates in different countries, ranging from the sixteenth century to the twentieth country*. Thus, whatever the answer may be, for, say, the English-speaking countries in the period 1500-2100, IT WILL BE DIFFERENT FOR OTHER COUNTRIES. *The Tsars of Russia stuck to the Julian calendar; one of the many changes made by the Soviets was the calendar. This is the reason why the "October Revolution" was in November. --------- Matthew.Healy@yale.edu http://paella.med.yale.edu/~healy "Any content-based regulation of the Internet could burn down the global village to roast the pig." -- Judge Dalzell, on the CDA