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Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail!

From	docdwarf@panix.com ()
Newsgroups	comp.software.year-2000
Subject	Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail!
Date	2012-03-17 00:44 +0000
Organization	Public Access Networks Corp.
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In article <PYLsPkN295YPFw23@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid>,
Dr J R Stockton  <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> wrote:
>In comp.software.year-2000 message <jjrfcp$njt$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:07:37, docdwarf@panix.com posted:
>
>>In article <Nhv8BBNn2QYPFwEN@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid>,
>>Dr J R Stockton  <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> wrote:
>>>In comp.software.year-2000 message <jjm846$di1$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>>>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:32:54, docdwarf@panix.com posted:
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>>'How long are six months?', I asked.
>>>>
>>>>'What are you talking about?  All ya gotta do is convert the month to a
>>>>number and add six', he sneered.
>>>>
>>>>'That might work for January through June... but what's six months from
>>>>August?', I replied.
>>>
>>>
>>>Those might work for you; but over here March has 31 days and September
>>>only 30; likewise May & November (and Oct-Apr).
>>
>>Were one to have the patience to read the entire posting before responding
>>one might, possibly, have seen the possibility of unequal month-length
>>addressed.
>
>That comment addresses your "might work" starting months, January to
>June; no more.

The situation as given might not allow for so clear a cleaving, Dr 
Stockton, as 'January to June' was mentioned in the first half of a 
sentence which contained a slightly deeper case as demonstrated by August.

(It is not uncommon to use a didactic mechanism which begins with simpler 
problems and progresses to the more complex.

>I thought it unnecessary to acknowledge that you are not
>invariably wrong.

Were that to have been done, Dr Stockton, it might have been seen as being 
worth double... nay, triple the amount of renumeration which we'd 
previously agreed on.

DD

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Microsoft - leap day Fail! Steve Dover <sw0rdf1sh@att.net> - 2012-03-04 15:57 -0600
  Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! docdwarf@panix.com () - 2012-03-04 22:14 +0000
    Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! Steve Dover <sw0rdf1sh@att.net> - 2012-03-12 14:33 -0500
      Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! docdwarf@panix.com () - 2012-03-13 01:32 +0000
        Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! Dr J R Stockton <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-03-14 21:29 +0000
          Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! docdwarf@panix.com () - 2012-03-15 01:07 +0000
            Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! Dr J R Stockton <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-03-16 20:15 +0000
              Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! docdwarf@panix.com () - 2012-03-17 00:44 +0000

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