Adding Time and Date

Bruce Howard bhoward at funvax.UUCP
Sun Aug 31 00:19:00 AEST 1986


> Use ACM algorithm #199 "Conversions Between Calendar Date and
> Julain Day Number".  Once you've converted the dates into julian
> days (number of days since the founding of Rome, for trivia buffs)
> the arithmetic is trivial.  When done, you convert back.
> 
> The algorithms are fairly short; I can type them in if you don't
> have the Collected Algorithms available.

Is there also a simple routine that will allow me to calculate
what day of the week an arbitrary date falls on?

			Bruce

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