Re: [LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 124, Issue 17

2017-01-05 Thread Richard Clark 

And the name on the certificate could have been changed to 'Frederic' :-)

Cheers to Gilbert & Sullivan! (in case anyone needs a hint)

Richard

On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, Tom Van Baak wrote:


Feb 29th, of course.  The print macro just adds "10" to the year field. :-)


What would be worse is if Hal worked there 40 years before he got a 10th 
anniversary certificate.


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Re: [LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 124, Issue 17

2017-01-05 Thread Tom Van Baak 
> Feb 29th, of course.  The print macro just adds "10" to the year field. :-)

What would be worse is if Hal worked there 40 years before he got a 10th 
anniversary certificate.

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Re: [LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 124, Issue 17

2017-01-05 Thread Sanjeev Gupta 
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Hal Murray  wrote:

> I started work at DEC on Feb 29th.  10 years later, I got a fancy
> certificate
> congratulating me on being there for 10 years.  Want to guess what date was
> on it?
>

Feb 29th, of course.  The print macro just adds "10" to the year field. :-)

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Re: [LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 124, Issue 17

2017-01-05 Thread Tom Van Baak 
> I started work at DEC on Feb 29th.  10 years later, I got a fancy certificate 
> congratulating me on being there for 10 years.  Want to guess what date was 
> on it?

Ha! This from the same company that in 1983 wrote my favorite bug report of all 
time:

https://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/products/year-2000/leap.html

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Re: [LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 124, Issue 17

2017-01-05 Thread Hal Murray 

> 9) Exposing citizens to leap days is near universal. Printed and computer
> calendars have no trouble with that extra day. Almost every child learns
> about leap years during their schooling. Some people are even born on a leap
> day. 

I started work at DEC on Feb 29th.  10 years later, I got a fancy certificate 
congratulating me on being there for 10 years.  Want to guess what date was 
on it?

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