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Article #4182Re: why 1904? ms excel
From: Howard A. Landman x61391
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1989 17:30
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1989 17:30
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In article <30291@srcsip.UUCP> mnkonar@src.honeywell.com (Murat N. Konar) writes: >January 1, 1904 is the earliest date that the Mac OS will represent. I'm not >sure why or how this date was chosen. It is curious though, isn't it? Curious isn't the word. #@(%!*8 inconvenient is more like it. A couple of extra bits and they could have gone back to the founding of the Gregorian calendar, which would have saved me a lot of pain in dealing with dates in one of my Hypercard stacks. The events I'm tracking go back to the early 1700's, and there are *lots* of them between 1850 and 1900. So in order to be able to sort by date, I have to specify dates as YYYY-MM-DD and do an alpha sort, and write special code to convert those dates to other formats. Howard A. Landman landman@sun.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!newstop!sun!hanami!landman From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman x61391) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: why 1904? ms excel Message-ID: <124276@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 7 Sep 89 17:30:59 GMT References: <457a7553.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> <30291@srcsip.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman x61391) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 16