Technically, the first year of each century is cc01, not cc00.
Due to an appalling lack of consistency, the C programmers in the
first decade ("0") of the first century ("0") declared the first year
to be "1". :-)
-Chip-
On 1/3/11 16:03 George Henke/NYLIC said:
Not quite sure what is the difference between the number of days since
the beginning of the century and the number of days since the most
recent year ending in '00' unless going back or ahead more than a
century or 2.
But I suppose there is a difference or it would have been moot.
*Chip Davis <c...@aresti.com>*
Be careful with Date('C'). It doesn't really give you the number of
days in the current century (as it was originally documented). It
returns the number of days since the beginning of the most recent year
ending in '00', e.g. '2000'.
On 1/3/11 14:25 George Henke/NYLIC said:
> REXX also has a nifty function called Century Day that simplifies things
> by working in century days, days since the beginning of the century,
> rather than days since the beginning of the year.
