John McKown wrote:

>Unless, like someone I knew back in the 1970's who didn't want to calculate 
>leap years at run time. So she had a hard coded table in her program. It went 
>up to her planned retirement date.

Why? Is she crazy, bored, lazy or what? To fix dates for leap years are just a 
few instructions worth depending on the language and purpose of date usage.

Was that table verified at all?

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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