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To: TraderGreg who wrote (86480)	12/21/1998 6:55:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 176387

OT re: Julian days better than Gregorian years Leaving aside the injury to the fame of your clumsy namesake, don't you think if we had dropped the Gregorian (and "Julian") calendars and adopted Julian days, calculating mortgage interest could have been an exact science, rather than the crude approximations that had to be used for years. The Julian day number of Gregorian 1/1/2000 is 2451544.5. We wouldn't have had to memorize that damned "30 days hath November ... " and Y2K would be no problem. Wonder who pocketed those round-off errors generated by the old tables.?