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Show years in Date Format->Age
Posted: 13 Jul 2004 08:21
by Chris Wood
Age should show years as well as days, hours and minutes. Who wants to know that something is 1413 days old? I'd rather be told "4 years". If I want a more precise date, I'll use a more precise date format.
Re: Show years in Date Format->Age
Posted: 13 Jul 2004 10:53
by admin
Done
Posted: 14 Jul 2004 06:21
by Chris Wood
Thanks!
Close, but no cigar
Posted: 17 Jul 2004 20:22
by Chris Wood
NB: The actual average year length is
365.2425 days.
Re: Close, but no cigar
Posted: 18 Jul 2004 00:44
by admin
Chris Wood wrote:NB: The actual average year length is
365.2425 days.
How careless of me! But even 365.2425 is not perfect: The vernal equinox year is currently about 365.242375 days long. The Gregorian leap year rule gives an average year length of 365.2425 days. This difference of a little over 0.0001 days means that an error of a day will accumulate in around 8,000 years. So I will get swamped with bug reports around the year 10004. Frightening!
Posted: 18 Jul 2004 02:42
by Chris Wood
lol