Re: Adding Months to a date in assembly language


<robertwessel2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1182968104.872453.175400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Jun 26, 9:25 pm, "cr88192" <cr88...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
how about, we use what could be called a "mean month", which could be
defined as 30.4375 days.

or, 730.5 hours, 43830 minutes, or 2629800 seconds.


Only if you like incorrect definitions... (You're using a value for
the length of the year that's been widely known to be incorrect since
Gregory XIIIths time).


I used a quick approximation (number of days given 3 standard years and a
leap year...).

nevermind that it will drift some on any timescale much larger than a few
decades...

likewise, afaik, this measure is often used as the base unit within the
scientific community.

or such...


actually, what would almost be nice sometimes is if the current ad-hoc
calender system were ammended by a more "uniform" system, which does not
worry about issues like the exact length of the solar year, months,
timezone, ...

in this system, time is just a scalar relative to a fixed reference.

most sensible would be to make it decimally aligned with the current year,
so, now would be 2007.something...

writing a quick tool for this:
2007.486488 (linear as per a julian calander)

which readily shows that the year is about half-over.

converting to a more familiar representation:
2007 06 26

with a strictly linear representation (of course, this would be too tempting
to confuse with a traditional date, which it is not...).

(in this system, however, there is a non-trivial relation with the time of
day, so a particular day and time does not exactly imply the amount of
sunlight outside...).

or such...



.