Leap year could have affected this date but another thing could have affected it too - the international dateline, which was in place at least as early as Dec 21, 1521 when Magellan returned to Spain from his three year voyage around the earth. Depending where and who calculated the date it could be off one day due to that dateline. Shirley Doesn't leap year effect this? phd > I haven't been following this conversation so forgive my question: Where did > this death or birth occur? > Shirley > IN > > > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:25:14 -0400, Dennis Kowallek > wrote: > > >>The Gregorian Date Calculator, one of the Tools found in Personal > >>Ancestral File (PAF), the genealogy program developed by the Church of > >>Jesus Christ of Latter-Days Saints (LDS) calculates the birth date as > >>Saturday, 16 September 1797. > > > >That's odd. Legacy's date calculator says 17 Sep 1797. I just counted > >backwards 10 months and 19 days from 5 Aug of this year and landed on 16 > >Sep. So there must be a bug in Legacy's date calculator and I am off to > >report it. > > Now that I look at the problem, both answers are correct. It all depends > on the direction you count. > > 38 years, 10 months, and 19 days forward from 17 Sep 1797 gives you 5 > Aug 1836. But 38 years, 10 months, and 19 days backward from 5 Aug 1836 > gives you 16 Sep 1797. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to > come up with the reason for this. ;-) > > But this poses an interesting question. When we see quotations like this > (I assume Nancy was looking at a tombstone in this case), which > method/date is correct? One almost has to get into the head of the > person who carved the tombstone to figure this out. > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHBUTLER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHBUTLER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006