From: rouillard@acm.org (Jacques Rouillard)
Subject: Re: How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ?
Date: 1996/12/30
Date: 1996-12-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rouillard-3012961533380001@mac-rouillard.imt-mrs.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2safqwb3jc.fsf@hpodid2.eurocontrol.fr
In article <2safqwb3jc.fsf@hpodid2.eurocontrol.fr>, Steve Jones - JON
<jon@hpodid2.eurocontrol.fr> wrote:
> Each century is not a leap year (eg 1900 wasn't) but Millenia ARE leap years
> so 2000 will be one. This has nicely made writting calendar progs a little
> simpler as you don't have to do a /100 check for a limited span product
> (eg 1970 -> 2099). I'd guess he stops at 2099 for just that reason. The check
> is quite simple but why add code when a comment suffices ?
Not only millenia but all centuries multiple of 400. 2000 will be the
second time it happens since the 1582 reform.
Yours,
Jacques
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-12-22 0:00 How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ? Jerry van Dijk
1996-12-23 0:00 ` Eric Miller
1996-12-23 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-12-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-24 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-12-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-24 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-12-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-26 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-12-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-12-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-26 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-12-27 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-12-27 0:00 ` Leap seconds in Unix time (was: Re: How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ?) Norman H. Cohen
1996-12-30 0:00 ` How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ? Mike Young
1996-12-30 0:00 ` 2000 is a leap year (was: How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Inte) Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-30 0:00 ` How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ? Michael F Brenner
1996-12-31 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-01-02 0:00 ` 2000 is a leap year (was: How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Inte) Mike Paley
1996-12-30 0:00 ` How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ? Steve Jones - JON
1996-12-30 0:00 ` Jacques Rouillard [this message]
1996-12-30 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON
1996-12-30 0:00 ` Dave Barnes
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