Clive Feather posts some interesting historical observations about the calendar, which I suppressed from my original posting because I thought that they'd drown the readers in irrelevant detail -- a one-line summary, in my arrogant opinion, is "we don't want to go there." -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin KENNY GE Corporate Research & Development kennykb@crd.ge.com P. O. Box 8, Bldg. K-1, Rm. 5B36A Schenectady, New York 12301-0008 USA