Re: calender

2001-12-05 Thread Steve Lelievre
If my memory is of any avail, week days repeat at regular intervals of 18 years. Maybe I am wrong. Anyway, it is easy to check if you have a perpetual calendar at hand. It should be 28 years (for 7 days in a week x 4 years between leaps) Specifically, there are 52 weeks plus 1 day in a year,

RE: calender

2001-12-05 Thread John Malecki
Hello Walter, I use the calendar manager within the emacs editor on my linux system and it has all of the features you mention. The stuff was primarily written by Ed Reingold. For more information poke around http://emr.cs.iit.edu/~reingold/ and especially http://emr.cs.iit.edu/~reingold

Re: calender

2001-12-05 Thread Fernando Cabral
A year is a leap year if it can be devided by four without remaining, except if it ends in "00" (like 1900, 2000...) in which case it must be devisible by 400 instead. If my memory is of any avail, week days repeat at regular intervals of 18 years. Maybe I am wrong. Anyway, it is easy to check if

calender

2001-12-05 Thread walter.jonckheere
Hello everybody, if I am right the year 2000 had a februari 29. What is the formula for calculating the year allready gone, also with a februari 29 and where the names of the day were exactly the same, I mean if januari 1 was a monday in 2000, it should also be a monday in the year we are looking

dodecahedron desk calender

1999-12-03 Thread john hoy
It has come to my attention that I may have inadvertently given some of you the impression that I am the author of the PostScript dodecahedron desk calender which I recently mentioned here. I am not. The calender was written by an Andrew Rogers, utilizing an existing dodecahedron program. I

Re: Sky calender

1998-05-14 Thread Luke Coletti
Hello Anton, Thank you for your post, if you are interested in solar coordinates and other related solar information (including rise/set times) you may want to use a WWW based CGI application I wrote and just recently updated. As well as computing two forms of tabular data it also gene