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The scribor, Bro Avery, scribeth...
> Brian Berger wrote:
>>
>> That means, according to manufacture websites, that on Jan 1, I have to
>> simply enter the date in the BIOS. The easiest fix is to change the date
>> _now_ to read 1972, as the date rollover will be the same from 72 to 73 as
>> 99 to 00. Quick and painless, then you can change it back on Jan 1. Bro
>> Tyler has been following this a bit closer, but I don't fear much from Y2K,
>> except that gasoline will be going up a quarter a gallon this last week!
>>
> Bro. Berger, are you sure you didn't mean 1971 to 1972? Y2K has me talking to
> myself, and sometimes I listen to myself and realize I am confused.
> I could be mixed up, but I believe 1971 is equivalent to 1999 and 1972 is
> equivalent to 2000.

Bro Avery scribes the truth.... the year 1999 A.D. has the same Gregorian
Calendar as 1971 A.D. as well as the following leap years of 2000 A.D. and
1972 A.D. are likewise identical.  I'm sure Bro Berger intended what Bro
Avery scribeth to say... he just jumbled around the years a bit.

It took me a while to find it on the web, but there's a page that allows
one to look at the different calendars....

   http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/eprebel/Calendar/Perpetual/index.html

... first select Julian or Gregorian calendar (Julian calendars were used
prior to 1582 A.D.... Gregorian since).... then choose the century in the
frame below it....  when the next frame populates, choose the link of the
particular year in that century.

Once the year is selected, in the upper right-hand frame, appears a designation
of the series of the calendar... you are given the "Dominical Letter" associated
with that particular calendar ... years 1971 A.D. and 1999 A.D. are both a "C"
as well as 1972 A.D. and 2000 A.D. are both "BA".  For non-leap years there
are seven different calendars ordered "A" through "G".  For calendars with a
leap year (or a February 29th), there are two characters to classify the
specific
calendar for that year... the first character is for the calendar used for
January and February, and the second character is for the calendar March through
December.  The link at ...

   http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/eprebel/Calendar/Tables/DominicalLetter.html

... 'splains it a little better technically.

The first time I ever remember a *perpetual* calendar was when I was looking
through a "World Almanac".  You know the kind of book that is about 2 - 3 inches
thick that isn't anything but statistics, facts, figures, phases of the Moon,
sunrises, sunsets, mass of the Earth, orbital rotations, speed of light,
frequency
of disaster, etc, etc, etc.... not exactly fascinating reading ... but it is was
something that occupied my youthful nerdy/geeky-ness many many moons ago.

I thought it strange to see a two pages in a World Almanac with a chart of 14
different years (they're indexed from 1 - 14) and then a table in the upper left
hand corner of years from 17xx A.D. to about 22xx A.D. or something.  Look up
the year you want... you find out the year index number between 1 and 14 and
then you can see what the calendar for that year would look like.  It took me a
few times of looking at it to figger out why there was 14 different and distinct
calendars when it seemed like the two of the calendars started Jan 1 on a Sunday
and two on Monday, and so forth.... it didn't make sense to me that the years
that started on the same day of the week didn't end the year on the same day of
the week.  It took me a while to figure out that the difference in those years
was the presence of February 29 in one year and not the other.  The year that
lasted an extra day of the week (calendars 8 - 14) were the years that there was
a Feb 29 or more commonly called a "Leap Year" with that "Leap Day".

Bro Tyler
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