Request for simple date routines.

[Jennifer H. Zemsky]

In article <1991Apr9.234255.143 at mprgate.mpr.ca> stone at mars.mpr.ca (Darren Stone) writes:
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>I really don't care at all about efficiency, but
>they must work absolutely reliably for +/- several
>hundred years (taking into account the leap-year
>rules).  Actually, what are the leap year rules?
>Something about evenly divisible by 4, except
>not by 100, except by 400?
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can't help with the first two, but the rule of leap years is:
leap = (((year/4 is int) && !(year/100 is int)) || (year/400 is int))
this is why many electric calendars go from 1901 - 2099 ... it saves the
check of year/100.

good luck.


>- Darren -