The files ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2000h.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2000h.tar.gz are now available. These include the changes circulated by Paul Eggert to the time zone mailing last week, along with one typo fix in the "art" file. With providence, this is the last update of the millenium. --ado
From: "Olson, Arthur David (NCI)" <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:39:28 -0500
With providence, this is the last update of the millennium.
I agree with your hope about providence, but I can't resist mentioning that most people say that we're already in the new millennium, and they have good arguments. For more on this subject please see Dick Teresi's article ``Zero'', in the July 1997 Atlantic Monthly, at: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jul/zero.htm There are some pretty heavyweight names on the side of origin-zero millennia, including Cassini, Goethe, Hugo, and Maskelyne. Also, the best currently available book on computer calendars uses origin-zero. See: Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition Cambridge University Press (June 2000) http://emr.cs.uiuc.edu/home/reingold/calendar-book/index.shtml
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Paul Eggert wrote:
Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition Cambridge University Press (June 2000)
Does this edition exist yet? The CUP UK website says June 2001; the CUP US website says June 2000 (but no prices listed); is there a transatlantic difference in the definition of millennium here :-)? The CUP US website also gives a different number of pages in the paperback from that given on the UK website for both paperback and hardback and on the US site for the hardback. (For other comparisons, amazon.co.uk says not yet published, publication date December 1999 (!); amazon.com says not yet published, December 15, 2000 for paperback and January 2001 for hardback.) How much difference is there between the 1997 edition (which I have) and this new edition? -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 22:53:39 +0000 (GMT) From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> cc: tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov Resent-From: tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Paul Eggert wrote:
Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition Cambridge University Press (June 2000)
Does this edition exist yet?
Sorry, I should have written "December 15, 2000". At least, that's what Amazon says for ISBN 0521777526. barnesandnoble.com also claims that they have it.
How much difference is there between the 1997 edition (which I have) and this new edition?
I don't have a copy yet, but judging by the preprint that I reviewed, there will be a substantial number of changes. (But it will still use origin zero. :-)
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