From:	Justin Fang <justinf@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Dates and days
Date:	Sun, 23 Mar 1997 22:27:12 -0800

The Illustrious Mr. Frypp wrote:

>> Was the 71 years in the future thing chosen to mean that if 03-24-97 is a
>> monday, so is 03-24-58?

>Here, you got Windows? Use the Date Book / Calender to jump ahead
>sixty-one years. Or figure out what today is in 2058 and just come
>up with a conversion factor (if today's sunday in 97 and friday in
>58, then 58'll be behind two days until 99 / 60).

On a Unix system, try "cal [month] [year]", i.e. cal 4 2058

2058 is one day "behind" 1997; if the curent day is a Monday than the same
date in 2058 is a Sunday, and so on.

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Justin Fang (justinf@****.caltech.edu)
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