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From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Dates and days
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 11:14:05 +0000
|The Illustrious Mr. Frypp wrote:

Errr..... Shouldn't that be the "late, lamented Mr Frypp"????

:)

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

Alas, some unix systems, like this one, would appear to only go to 2038...
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