Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 sponsored a method of time keeping that caused
the year 2008 to have 366 days. It's those damned Catholics Balmer
exclaims!
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5001LD20090101
424 years later MS is still playing catchup. Will a patch be ready for
424 years later MS is still playing catchup. Will a patch be ready for
2012?
It sure is a good thing for you that Apple software is completely bug-free,
otherwise this would seem rather silly and childish.
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i thought leap year was a caesar thing? gergory mucked with the end of century
leap years and divisible by 4 stuff(exercise left to students)
while we're at it, when was the last feb 30, and where did it go?
At 01:37 PM 1/1/2009, you wrote:
424 years later MS is still playing catchup. Will a
i thought leap year was a caesar thing? gergory mucked with the end of
century leap years and divisible by 4 stuff(exercise left to students)
Yes! Even better. 46 BC. Steve Balmer gasps Et tu, Brute?
2054 years and MS is still playing catchup.
Tom it goes back even farther. Try Julius Caesar in 47 BC.
All Gregory did was alter the way the leap years were applied in century years.
But to be honest the calendar has been fiddled with almost as long as
there has been time.
Stewart
At 11:58 AM 1/1/2009, you wrote:
Pope Gregory XIII
