Re: Weird IIgs Rom 01 bug

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Jayson Smith wrote:

>As far as weekdays go, for the person who commented that adjusting the year
>would produce the wrong weekdays, there's a little secret here.  The cycle
>of weekdays repeats every twenty-eight years normally.  This cycle is broken
>whenever a year that should be a leap year isn't.  This will happen next in
>2100.  For every year ending with 00, if the year is divisible by 400 it is
>a leap year, otherwise it isn't.  So 1700, 1800 and 1900 weren't, but 2000
>was.  So to get in the exact same spot in the weekday cycle for this year,
>you'd set your clock to the same date, and the year 1976.  Around the time
>of Y2K, they said that if your VCR wasn't Y2K compliant, you should set it
>to 1972 when the year was really 2000, because of the twenty-eight year
>cycle.

I understand, Jayson, but then the last two _year_ digits are wrong.

I was pointing out that there is no nearby century which has the
same calendar as the one we're in, so there's no workaround that
is not readily distinguishable from reality.

-michael

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