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Re: Date Trivia Question

From: James Petts <jpetts_at_celltech.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:27:27 GMT
Message-ID: <36961582.89209776@firewall.celltech> 





On Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:14:22 -0500, "Jerry Gitomer"
<jgitomer_at_ictgroup.com> wrote:




>Unlike some of the minicomputer makers Oracle showed great restraint in


>not making their base date the year of their founding.





I particularly appreciate this: I have a database of Ancient Egyptian
artefacts that I am working on, and being able explicitly to do
calculations on dates of reigns, etc, is marvellous...



James
Received on Fri Jan 08 1999 - 08:27:27 CST












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