Posted on 10/10/2006 10:27:11 AM PDT by Young Werther
Today I was date stamping a spreadsheet. I was going to use the @ Today function. I entered the function and was about to format the answer. The date functions return the sum of the days since 01/01/1900! Much to my surprise the answer for today was 39,000.
This earth-shattering discovery really should be in Breaking News.
Series. And hugh.
Cool. Time to play the Lotto with multiples of 39.
Better let Louie Farrakhan know - he's into that sort of thing.
A few seconds ago, it has been 169,516,800 seconds since you signed up to FR
;)
Freaky. I was alive before half of that 39,000 had transpired!! I guess that's why my teenage daughter calls me the "Olde Farte!"
I remember every one of those 39,000 days. It's been a long, well-remembered life. Please keep me updated!
Today I noticed a funny lump on the side of my right foot.
"my teenage daughter calls me the "Olde Farte!"
LOL. I'm sure she means it with the great respect that is due you;)
She did say that I might be an alternative source of methane. She then asked if I needed more Beano!
See, not only respectful but intelligent, and watching out for herself, too.
I hate to break it to you but...
Excel is wrong.
Excel assumes 1900 was a leap year. It wasn't.
Years divisible by 100 are leap years only when they are also divisible by 400. The year 2000 was a leap year - 1900 was not.
Sooo .. I was born Feb. 29, 1948 ... am I here ... or ain't I?
You are here. 1948 is divisible by 4, but not by 100.
You would not be here if you were born on Feb. 29, 1900.
The bad news is this means you will have to pay your mortgage and your credit card bill this month.
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