Re: Date and time arithmetic

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JRS: In article <42635e4c$0$64582$a726171b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dated Mon,
18 Apr 2005 02:13:58, seen in news:microsoft.public.scripting.jscript,
Vic Sowers <Mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted :


>Then I did the date math by hand and, indeed, 9:18 is correct.
>
>I concluded that, since the Earth has moved a bit during the intervening
>month, the new moon appears little earlier....

Well, that's not right; but it is a small step in the right direction.


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