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February 2000, Week 5

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Art hehehe's:

> hmmm... well.... At our house the Better Half and I have 9 watches that
> think it is 01 March and one watch that thinks it is 29 February!  Leave
> it to Nike (tm) to be the only watchmaker that got it right! hehehe

Art, unless your watch knows what year it is, Nike got it *wrong.* The
"75% solution," the one most watch makers use, is to roll from 2/28 to
3/1, since that's what happens 75% of the time. If your watch always rolls
to 2/29 it means 3 years out of 4 you'll have to manually set it to 3/1,
instead of only having to set it to 2/29 once every four years.

Of course, if your watch *does* know what year it is... that's "way cool."

My .02
Patrick
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Patrick Santucci
Technical Services Analyst
Seabury & Smith, Inc.

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