Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All the individual digits have to be odd or even, not just the full numbers - - in 11/29/1999 for instance, the "2" in the day disqualifies it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc James Small [mailto:msmall@roanoke.infi.net] > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 1:51 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] <OT> major event happening > > > At 10:16 AM 11/17/1999 -0800, Jim Brick wrote: > >Just to make you all aware of a major event, today > (11/17/1999) is the > >second to last "odd" day for another millennium. The next > and last odd day > >is 11/19/1999. An odd day is where all of the digits in the > date are odd. > > > > After that, we won't see an odd day until 1/1/3111. > > > > The next even day will be 2/2/2000, the first since 8/28/888. > > > > I am clearly missing something here. Why won't "1/1/2001" be > an "odd day"? > And why wasn't "12/30/1998" the last even day? For that > matter, why is > "11/19/99" the last "odd day" of the millenium (and, for > once, we seemingly > don't have to argue over the 2000/2001 thing)? Wouldn't 11/21/99 and > 11/23/99 and 11/25/99 and 11/27/99 and 11/29/99 qualify? > > What am I missing? > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >