[HECnet] The new few centuries (or DATE75)

[Robert Armstrong]

> Thomas DeBellis wrote:
>For 12 bits, the largest date comes out to 1/4/1975 

  Yeah, but the arithmetic doesn't work out.  Between 1/1/64 and 1/4/75 are only 4021 days.

  Hmmm - 31 days * 12 months * 11 years = 4092...  That works out about right for 1/4/75.

  The date calculation must have assumed that there were 31 days in all months.

  I should dig out my old TOPS-10 "telephone book" reference manual and see what it says...

Bob