[NTLK] Did I miss the memo?

[Forrest]

Kate:

I have not researched this, but wouldn't it follow that if 1940 and 2024 are the same, then 1941 and 2025 would be the same? Even though 2024 was a leap year, then 1940 would have also been...?

Mahalo,
Forrest

Sent from my T-Mobile iPhone 15 Pro

> On Jan 4, 2025, at 8:04 PM, Kate C <kate.case at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dennis sorry!
> 
> 
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>> On 5 Jan 2025, at 2:03 pm, Kate C <kate.case at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I think Forrest meant that you would want to set it as a year that has the same calendar as 2025, not 2024 - which was the original suggestion by Denis
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Kate
>> 
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>>>> On 5 Jan 2025, at 12:58 pm, Avi Drissman <avi at drissman.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Trying to get an 85-year span surely was intended as a joke. NewtonScript
>>> integers are 30 bits, so isn't the biggest time span you'd be able to do
>>> 2³⁰ seconds ≅ 34 years? It's been a while since I've poked at time code,
>>> tho.
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM Forrest <newton_phoenix at mindspring.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Dennis, wouldn't you want to set the date to 1941--2024+1=2025,
>>>> 1940+1=1941 ?
>>>> 
>>>> Does that sound right?
>>>> 
>>>> Mahalo,
>>>> Forrest
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my T-Mobile iPhone 15 Pro
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 4, 2025, at 3:35 PM, Peter Fraser via NewtonTalk <
>>>> newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Well, now you need to tell us the title or other identifying
>>>> information so that some of us can read it, too!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> 
>>>>> — Peter
>>>>> pjfraser at mac.com
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jan 4, 2025, at 2:10 PM, Grant Hutchinson via NewtonTalk <
>>>> newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Jan 4, 2025, at 3:00 PM, Dennis Swaney via NewtonTalk <
>>>> newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> “The 2024 calendar will be a perfectly identical match to the 1996
>>>> calendar. The seven years that share the same calendar in the current
>>>> 200-year timeframe include 1940, 1968, 1996, 2024, 2052, 2080 and 2120,
>>>> according to timeanddate.com.”
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> So if you set the year to 1940, you should be safe for the next 85
>>>> years?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I love a good chronological hack.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> (Ever so slightly related to this, I just finished reading a 900 page
>>>> anthology of science fiction time travel stories.)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks, Dennis!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> g.
>>>>>> 
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