OT--What countries had a Feb. 30?--Or, "Does this seem like DF TC on a bigger scale?"

[Ted Langdell]

Had reason to look up the Gregorian Calendar.  

Reading its history and "mechanics of adoption" made me think of drop frame time code with irregularities being used to slew VTRs to sync, and a bunch of roll-ins happening at different times during a running edit. Good Grief!  

And there was one Feb. 30 in the history of the Gregorian Calendar. Only affected two machines... er, countries.

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/gregorian-calendar.html

If you think there's a better calendar to even out timing errors, guess again!

http://www.timeanddate.com/date/perfect-calendar.html

It's no wonder that we have a world full of problems.  We're not synced!

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary
Quad Videotape Group
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

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