Stephan, > Yeah, i should have mentioned that i'm simplifying to the range of dates > "sometime within my lifetime." Anything else is irrelevant for my > presentation ;).
then, you only need to calculate ( year % 4 ). This gives you a window from 1900-3-1 to 2100-2-28 (two complete centuries!). I belive none of us (people in this mailingist) will still be alive in 2100 ;-) Regards, Jose F. Gimenez