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Article #5111Re: All numeric representation of dates
From: Miki HERMANN
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1988 18:28
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1988 18:28
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In article <324@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: >In article <107@taux02.UUCP> amos@taux02.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes: >>For scientific purposes, time is already presented in the Julian date >>system (e.g., the time now is 2447402.78570 days). It would be nice if >>everybody used this system. Coming to think of it, everybody should use >>the binary system - it would be so much easier to program! :-) > >Continuing in the same spirit of humour: the Imperial system of liquid >measures *was* binary! Even a better suggestion would be to use the French revolutionary calendar. Does someone know which days is the 3rd "brumaire" of the year 199? Miki HERMANN Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy -------------------------------------------- e-mail: hermann@crin.crin.fr post: CRIN, B.P. 239, F-54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, FRANCE phone: +33 83.91.20.00 ext(poste) 30.59
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!mcvax!inria!crin!hermann From: hermann@crin.crin.fr (Miki HERMANN) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.std.internat Subject: Re: All numeric representation of dates Keywords: French revolutionary calendar Message-ID: <596@crin.crin.fr> Date: 2 Sep 88 18:28:15 GMT Article-I.D.: crin.596 References: <1988Aug28.010835.17290@utzoo.uucp> <2882@hubcap.UUCP> <107@taux02.UUCP> <324@quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: hermann@crin.crin.fr (Miki HERMANN) Organization: CRIN - CNRS & INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France Lines: 21