http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4192 I should probably have said: "Calendars are a pain [to represent perfectly in a linear, unambiguous fashion]." I hate programming for dates/calendars. And it's too late for your calendar. Too many people have laughed/been horrified by it. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Mercy General Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:40:50 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4192 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4189 Calendars are a pain, eh? I expect you to return your Christmas present from me immediately. CatLady@idkfa.com (CatLady) Mercy General Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:11:44 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4189 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4187 You're right. After the economy tanks for the seventh time (and my measly 401k with it), I'll be working 'til the day I can't remember my passwords anymore. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Mercy General Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:20:51 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4187 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4186 Retire in 26 years? At age 52?? Good luck. Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) Mercy General Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:13:50 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4186 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4185 Also fascinating/terrifying, the Year 2038 problem: I hope to be retired by then. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Mercy General Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:20:00 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4185 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4184 If you are interested in the history, I found an online PDF of The Discoverers. Start reading at page 4 to learn all about how humans have come to mark time as we have. One problem with the lunar calendar is that it gets out of sync with the seasons with each passing year. The ancient Egyptians first "escaped" the lunar calendar by marking the passage of time with the Nile; which conveniently lined up with a 365 day year... almost. Since the solar year, of course, is not precisely 365 days, the Egyptian year of 365 days would, over the centuries, become a "wandering year" with each named month gradually occurring in a different season. The discrepancy was so small that it took many years, far longer than any one person's lifetime, for the error to disturb daily life. Each month moved through all the seasons in fourteen hundred and sixty years. Still, this Egyptian calendar served so much better than any other known at the time that it was adopted by Julius Caesar to make his Julian calendar. It survived the Middle Ages and was still used by Copernicus in his planetary tables in the sixteenth century. Also: The reform of the calendar by Pope Gregory XIII was needed because the year that Julius Caesar had borrowed from the Egyptians, and which had ruled Western civilization since then, was not a precise enough measure of the solar cycle. The actual solar year—the time required for the earth to complete an orbit around the sun—is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. This was some 11 minutes and 14 seconds less than the 365 V\ days in the Egyptian year. As a result, dates on the calendar gradually lost their intended relation to solar events and to the seasons. The crucial date, the vernal equinox, from which Easter was calculated, had been fixed Green Man@idkfa.com (Green Man) Mercy General Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:06:43 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4184 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4183 Calendars are a pain. I might start celebrating my "revolutionary" birthday. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Mercy General Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:19:34 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4183 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4182 To be fair I have never understood why months were allocated the number of days that they were. And do you mean pro "calendar" choice, because I would love to go back to a lunar calendar. No reason. I just wants it. MrFood@idkfa.com (MrFood) Mercy General Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:46:42 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4182 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4180 "This is why I'm pro choice." Green Man@idkfa.com (Green Man) Mercy General Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:09:03 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4180 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4179 Happy Leap Day. Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK-frJtGrt4 kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Mercy General Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:07:58 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4179&msg_id=4179