Re: HELP! YEAR 2000 BUG: How will it affect you?

In article <543s09$j2b@main.dscga.com>, bcoogler@dscga.com (Bolen Coogler) wrote: >jb85@dial.pipex.com (Simon) wrote: > >>abennett@cruzio.com (Andrew Bennett) wrote: > >>>By 1582 the accumulated error was estimated to amount to 10 days. In >>>that year Pope Gregory XIII decreed that the day following Oct. 4, >>>1582, should be called Oct. 15, thus dropping 10 days and initiating >>>what became known as the Gregorian calendar. > >>I thought it was 1752 that this happened, and it was September... > >>The date after the 2nd September 1752 was the 14th September 1752. >>Check it out on UNIX "cal"! >>-- >>Simon Holt -- System Designer/DBA >>** My opinions are not nescessarily those of my employers ** >>Britannia Zinc Ltd. Bristol, UK. (+44) 0117 980 2510 > >1582 is the year Pope Gregory decreed the new calendar. 1752 is when >England and Her Colonies (including we, the rebellious 13 across the >Atlantic) adopted the new calendar. As far as I know, Russia was the >last major country to adopt the Gregorian calendar in 1917, and it took >a revolution to do it. >--- >Bolen Coogler >DBA, BellSouth Information Systems > found the calendar faq at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~parm/calendar/calendar.html. Everything you (n)ever wanted to know. According to it China might not have converted until 1928. But cop this little beauty from it "When the Orthodox church in Greece finally decided to switch to the Gregorian calendar in the 1920s, they tried to improve on the Gregorian leap year rules, replacing the "divisible by 400" rule by the following: Every year which when divided by 900 leaves a remainder of 200 or 600 is a leap year. This makes 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, 2500, 2600, 2700, 2800 non-leap years, whereas 2000, 2400, and 2900 are leap years. This will not create a conflict with the rest of the world until the year 2800. This rule gives 218 leap years every 900 years, which gives us an average year of 365 218/900 days = 365.24222 days, which is certainly more accurate than the official Gregorian number of 365.2425 days. However, to my knowledge, this rule is *not* official in Greece. [Is this true?] [I have received an e-mail indicating that this system is official in Russia today. I'm investigating that. Information is very welcome.]" (The document is Copyright (C) 1996 by Claus Tondering. E-mail: ct@login.dknet.dk. The document may be freely distributed, provided this copyright notice is included and no money is charged for the document. This document is provided "as is". No warranties are made as to its correctness.) James Campbell Telstra Corporation jcampbel@vitgsysa.telstra.com.au /* All opinions are mine alone etc */