On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 22:17, Bob Rogers wrote: > The difference between that and Google's number is due to the fact > that 2208984820 is the number of seconds in an "average" year, which is > not a whole number of days -- it's more like 365.24 days. In fact, > 2208988800 seconds divided by 86400 seconds per day is exactly 25567 > days, which is 70*365+17; there are only 17 leap years in 1900-1969 as > 1900 was not a leap year. QED.
Yeah, I checked the leap seconds, but somehow I forgot to add in the leap days. Must have been one of those caffeine-deficiency brain farts. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99
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