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John W. Kennedy wrote:
> 
> And I once tested a Julian-date converter (the _real_ Julian date -- 
> serially numbered days from January 1, 4713 BC) to exhaustion, so it was 
> perfect, too.
> 
Did you test it to exhaustion if the forward as well as the backward direction? :)