Some things are so much a part of our daily routines that we just take them for granted; they work reliably day after day, and we don't even think to wonder about what's going on behind the scenes. Occasionally, though, we're jolted out of our passive acquiescence, only to be enchanted by the underlying "nuts and bolts." In this article, Alexander Kozak describes some of his finds related to dates. (Subscribers may want to re-read Andrew Zanevsky's February 1997 column, "Year 2000, 2050, 2079...," included in this month's Download. Available online are Anthony Perkins' article "What Day is It?" [January 2000], Andrew's "Granting Wishes with UDF" [September 2000], Ron Talmage's "The Dangers of Millisecond Arithmetic" [March 2003], and Tom Moreau's "Calculating Business Days"
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