[HECnet] How long has your 20 been up?
Paul Koning
paulkoning at comcast.net
Tue Jan 18 16:57:14 PST 2022
> On Jan 18, 2022, at 7:48 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
> By then, we probably also need to look at/revise how we compute leap years... It's well known that the current algorithm will slowly get us out of phase again...
The Gregorian algorithm is amazingly accurate, I wonder if the earth rotation slowing down is the bigger issue. Then again, I suspect a whole lot of computer date algorithms will get 2100 wrong; I know RSTS has the Julian leap year rule. Not that it really matters given the Y2035 issue...
paul
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