Hi
im not asking for help here, im just creating a discussion

its about the gregorian calender

i got bored one night and was thinking about the hype surrounding year 2000 worldwide system crash, and the predicted system crash coming in the year 10000.

so i was thinking about a calender project i had in a book years ago when i first started learning vb and decided to create my own gregorian calender class.

after a little research trying to find out when christ was born exactly i found it was not likely he was born on dec 25 and i decided well if the church cant even decide when he was born then basing a calender on that is pointless so i decided to find out what day was 01\01\00. just for all you guys who might want to know, the first day of the gregorian calender is sunday.

anyway with this information i found that instead of a class containing hundreds of lines of code i could find out what day, month, year, even time( although i didnt implement that, i used the leap year) with a couple of really simple functions. using modulus.

so why is it that something so simple was not and even today is not implemented in systems worldwide, i can even find the day 10000000000 days bc, find the month 25000000000 years 1 month 5 days using a simple function which is a couple of lines long.

i'm not sure if excel uses the same methods i came to make, but they use a number to calculate days and months etc.

what do you think?