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Article #4195Re: why 1904? ms excel
From: Jeremy Roussak
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1989 11:41
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1989 11:41
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The reason the Mac OS chooses 1904 as its first year may have something to do with the fact that 1900, although divisible by 4, was not a leap year. The next year satisfying those two criteria is 2100, so it could be that not checking for this saved a few bytes of code... Just a thought. Jeremy Roussak
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!qmc-cs!jeremyr From: jeremyr@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: why 1904? ms excel Message-ID: <1212@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> Date: 7 Sep 89 11:41:46 GMT References: <457a7553.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> <30291@srcsip.UUCP> Reply-To: jeremyr@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) Organization: Computer Science Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK. Lines: 8