The USA didn't have that much of an effect in 1753 :) And I'm pretty sure this call was made in Perrysberg, OH, and not by Microsoft.
I said "England" in the original article. My apologies to my English friends, as I'm pretty sure the term should have been "Great Britain." On 04/15/2014 08:05 AM, Allen wrote: > The site I sent says USA and Canada also went at the same year. I would > think the USA going would have more influence on Microsoft than the UK. > Al > > -----Original Message----- > > Page 23 of the Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0: > > [For example, GOMONTH() won't go back farther than the year 1753, the year > after England took on the "Gregorian shift" of the calendar, jumping 11 days > overnight and adding the bizarre leap-year rules of "every four, except in > years ending in 00's, except those divisible by 400."] > > Great book, highly recommended. :) > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
