Doesn't leap year effect this? phd -------------- Original message -------------- From: "unicorn1945" <unicorn1945@sbcglobal.net> > 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