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Translation please? Someone?

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Originally Posted by Zalister (Post 509248)

Translation please? Someone?

When Mikey-San says it's a leap year, that year better damn well leap :D.

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Originally Posted by blubbernaut (Post 509234)

At least we could divide our days into time slices in base ten! What's with 60 seconds in an minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day??

Perhaps this is a valid explanation? Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day?

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Originally Posted by Mikey-San (Post 509243)

is this the thread for calendar antics

$ cal 9 1752

Code:

   September 1752

Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa

       1  2 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Looks like we can blame the Brits for that one:

British Calendar Act of 1751
For The Year 1752

And that from and after the said first Day of January 1752, the several Days of each Month shall go on, and be reckoned and numbered in the same Order; and the Feast of Easter, and other moveable Feasts thereon depending, shall be ascertained according to the same Method, as they now are, until the 2nd Day of September in the said Year 1752 inclusive;

and that the natural Day next immediately following the said 2nd Day of September, shall be called, reckoned and accounted to be the 14th Day of September, omitting for that Time only the 11 intermediate nominal Days of the common Calendar;

Here's a link with TMI (too much information):

The Best of Dates, The Worst Of Dates

-HI-

Wow, my day finder didn't account for that madness. I guess that means that I'm way off at this point. I should point that out to my professor though so that all CS students following in my footsteps can suffer...

@fazstp -- Where did that thread go anyway? :D