[LEAPSECS] other ignored leap conventions

[Steve Allen]

On Fri 2012-02-24T17:12:16 +0000, Zefram hath writ:

> in a regular year.  But Gregorian months suck; I prefer ISO 8601's

> ordinal days.  So it's obvious to me that --366 is the intercalary day.

> Potential shift of most people's birthdays, if months go out of fashion?


Also the root of the bug which bricked Microsoft Zune media players
for the entire day of 2008-12-31.  It's all in the representation.

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