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Re: using old nautical almanacs
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2009 Mar 11, 09:05 -0000
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2009 Mar 11, 09:05 -0000
In [7619] I had written, in error- "Bill may find it of interest to see how our Gregorian Calendar adjusts to cater for that figure of 365.7422, by throwing in an occasional leap year day, or sometimes omitting it." which Bill questioned. He is right. In typing the number of days in a year as 365.7422 rather than 365.2422 as it should be, I had struck a wrong note on the keyboard. Sorry about that. I'm a fellow who seems to commit many such errors; a consequence of sending many postings, and not checking the details carefully enough. I will try to do better, but these things slip through. It's a special problem because such errors get archived, and someone reads them, years on, and takes them for gospel truth. It would be nice if a mailing list such as ours offered a way to draw attention to an acknowledged mistake, after it has appeared. Not to allow a posting to be amended after the event, which could be dangerous tinkering with history, and never-ending. Instead, to allow the original contributor (and nobody else) to retrospectively add a tag which means, in effect- "the writer of this posting asks you to read it in context with later message number [xxxx] which will modify it in some way". I fear that I would use it often. George. contact George Huxtable, at george@hux.me.uk or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222) or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---