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SubjectRe: February 30th 6240?
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, J. Scott Kasten wrote:

> Actually, I beleive it releives the need for the 3000 year correction.
> The 400 year correction is still applied. That's why Feb has 29 days
> this year.

Why don't we just make December 21st equal to the first day of the year, such
that the solstice falls on January 1st. This would serve as a perfect solar
marker that determines when the year actually begins. Then, we could look back
at the astronomers of the 12th (?) century and acknowledge that Jesus was
really born in 4 B.C. when the sky shined with the supernova. That means we
can say our date is really January 24, 2004. Thus, Y2K already came and went,
and all we're living is an illusion.

Or, perhaps we should use the Egyptian calendar?
That'd get us to about.. year 6240.

---
Cray's law of programming: Whatever isn't finished by the end of the day will
still not be finished by the end of the millennium.

Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>


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