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Was the guy born 220 years ago or 880 years ago? No google please.
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Was the guy born 220 years ago or 880 years ago? No google please.
Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
No google please.
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Was the guy born 220 years ago or 880 years ago? No google please.
Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
Was the guy born 220 years ago or 880 years ago? No google please.
Actually, because of century non-leap years, 220 leap years ago would be 874 years ago. ;P [Edit] :-O :-O :-O I shouldn't be subtracting the six century years, but rather adding them. 220 leap years ago would have to be 886 years ago in order to account for the century years that were *not* leap years. Incidentally, my middle name is now Persnickety. :) [/Edit]
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Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
Was the guy born 220 years ago or 880 years ago? No google please.
Actually, because of century non-leap years, 220 leap years ago would be 874 years ago. ;P [Edit] :-O :-O :-O I shouldn't be subtracting the six century years, but rather adding them. 220 leap years ago would have to be 886 years ago in order to account for the century years that were *not* leap years. Incidentally, my middle name is now Persnickety. :) [/Edit]
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
Thanks. I thought I missed something. Many years ago I was asked to investigate a report application which did not work on Feb 29th. I thought, wow, that was an interesting bug. I was disappointed to find out that the app did not work on 31th either.
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Thanks. I thought I missed something. Many years ago I was asked to investigate a report application which did not work on Feb 29th. I thought, wow, that was an interesting bug. I was disappointed to find out that the app did not work on 31th either.
Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
the app did not work on 31th either.
Back in the days of Y2K testing, I was tasked with some testing instructions concerning some DB procedures that accepted date parameters. The list of dates that I was supposed to test included invalid dates like that. February 29, 2000. Good Date. Check. February 29, 2001. Bad Date. Check. February 30, 2001. :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: Are we going to test March 32, 2002. also? :doh: :doh:
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
Was the guy born 220 years ago or 880 years ago? No google please.
Actually, because of century non-leap years, 220 leap years ago would be 874 years ago. ;P [Edit] :-O :-O :-O I shouldn't be subtracting the six century years, but rather adding them. 220 leap years ago would have to be 886 years ago in order to account for the century years that were *not* leap years. Incidentally, my middle name is now Persnickety. :) [/Edit]
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
Didn't the calender switch in 1582 which may change the math slightly?
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Didn't the calender switch in 1582 which may change the math slightly?
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. I also do Android Programming as I find it a refreshing break from the MS. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost
You are probably correct on that point. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
Was the guy born 220 years ago or 880 years ago? No google please.
Actually, because of century non-leap years, 220 leap years ago would be 874 years ago. ;P [Edit] :-O :-O :-O I shouldn't be subtracting the six century years, but rather adding them. 220 leap years ago would have to be 886 years ago in order to account for the century years that were *not* leap years. Incidentally, my middle name is now Persnickety. :) [/Edit]
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
Leap years are +1 for every 4 years, +0 for every 100 years, but +1 for every 400 years. I'm getting 220 leap years ago would be 901 years ago. 220 LY = 1 (2012 is a leap year) + 219 * 4 + 6 * 4 (1300, 1400, 1500, 1700, 1800, 1900 were skipped, so add six more four years) = 901Y The year 1112 would be 220 leap years ago. In Excel, start with 2012 in cell A1 and "=A1 -4" in cell A2 and copy that down to row A226. In column B, put 1 to 226 for indices (B2 = B1 + 1). Change B29 (1900) to equal B28, B54 (1800) to equal B53, B79 (1700) to equal B78, B129 (1500) to equal B128, B154 (1400) to equal B153, and B179 (1300) to equal B178. Eliminating the 6 non-leapyears, B226 becomes the 220th leap year. Of course this does not take into consideration when the Church changed the calander, I think.
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Leap years are +1 for every 4 years, +0 for every 100 years, but +1 for every 400 years. I'm getting 220 leap years ago would be 901 years ago. 220 LY = 1 (2012 is a leap year) + 219 * 4 + 6 * 4 (1300, 1400, 1500, 1700, 1800, 1900 were skipped, so add six more four years) = 901Y The year 1112 would be 220 leap years ago. In Excel, start with 2012 in cell A1 and "=A1 -4" in cell A2 and copy that down to row A226. In column B, put 1 to 226 for indices (B2 = B1 + 1). Change B29 (1900) to equal B28, B54 (1800) to equal B53, B79 (1700) to equal B78, B129 (1500) to equal B128, B154 (1400) to equal B153, and B179 (1300) to equal B178. Eliminating the 6 non-leapyears, B226 becomes the 220th leap year. Of course this does not take into consideration when the Church changed the calander, I think.
I'm glad to know that there is someone else who has more time on their hands to do things just like this. :-D
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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I'm glad to know that there is someone else who has more time on their hands to do things just like this. :-D
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
