RE: bit notation in ISO-8859-x is wrong

From: Mike Ayers (mike.ayers@tumbleweed.com)
Date: Tue Oct 12 2004 - 16:35:42 CST

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    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Werner LEMBERG
    > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 2:26 PM

    > > But for certain purposes e.g. historical astronomical calculations
    > > (used for establishing chronology from records of eclipses etc) the
    > > year numbers used are effectively negative numbers (and zero) AD.
    >
    > Well, astronomers normally convert everything to Julian Day
    > (JD) numbers, starting at January 1st, -4712 (this is -4713 BC), 12h.

            "(this is 4713 B.C.)", perhaps?

    > Today we have JD 2453291.

            The astronomers calendar is, I have faith, very useful to
    astronomers, but probably rather poor for the rest of us - can't even
    distinguish the seasons with it.

    /|/|ike



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