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The Lounge War Stories My Fifty Years Post 303017311 by jgt on Sunday 13th of May 2018 09:47:29 PM

05-13-2018

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My Fifty Years

So there I was in the summer of 1968, 24 years old, single, good job, two year old car with only four payments left, working in the purchasing department of a medium sized manufacturer and getting a free lunch every day with a sales rep. And then they put up an internal job posting for 'Systems Analyst Trainee'.
On Jan 6, 1969 I moved into my new office. My new boss came in with a stack of books, each one about 3 inches thick in heavy post binders.
The Canadian Income Tax Act.
The Federal Sales Tax Act.
The Ontario Provincial Sales Tax Act
The Quebec Provincial Sales Tax Act
The Accountants Reference Manual.
All I had to do for 6 months was read.
In June I talked to my boss about time shared computers, and in August we bought a Teletype ASR35 and arranged a time sharing contract. The minimum billing was about 70 dollars per month (perspective, my house phone was 8 dollars), and for that we had 4k of memory and concurrent access to 8 relative record files each with 100 records of 256 bytes each.
I wrote my first program.

Code:

for i = 1 to 10
print i
next i

Was I now ready for a real application?

To be continued...

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easter_days

EASTER_DAYS(3)								 1							    EASTER_DAYS(3)

easter_days - Get number of days after March 21 on which Easter falls for a given year

SYNOPSIS

       int easter_days ([int  $year = date("Y")], [int	$method = CAL_EASTER_DEFAULT])

DESCRIPTION

	Returns the number of days after March 21 on which Easter falls for a given year. If no year is specified, the current year is assumed.

	This  function	can  be used instead of easter_date(3) to calculate Easter for years which fall outside the range of Unix timestamps (i.e.
       before 1970 or after 2037).

	The date of Easter Day was defined by the Council of Nicaea in AD325 as the Sunday after the first full moon which falls on or	after  the
       Spring  Equinox.  The  Equinox is assumed to always fall on 21st March, so the calculation reduces to determining the date of the full moon
       and the date of the following Sunday. The algorithm used here was introduced around the year 532 by Dionysius  Exiguus.	Under  the  Julian
       Calendar  (for  years  before 1753) a simple 19-year cycle is used to track the phases of the Moon. Under the Gregorian Calendar (for years
       after 1753 - devised by Clavius and Lilius, and introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in October 1582, and into Britain and its then colonies	in
       September 1752) two correction factors are added to make the cycle more accurate.

PARAMETERS

	      o $year
		- The year as a positive number. If omitted, defaults to the current year according to the local time.

	      o $method
		-  Allows Easter dates to be calculated based on the Gregorian calendar during the years 1582 - 1752 when set to CAL_EASTER_ROMAN.
		See the calendar constants for more valid constants.

RETURN VALUES

	The number of days after March 21st that the Easter Sunday is in the given $year.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      easter_days(3) example

	      <?php

	      echo easter_days(1999);	     // 14, i.e. April 4
	      echo easter_days(1492);	     // 32, i.e. April 22
	      echo easter_days(1913);	     //  2, i.e. March 23

	      ?>

SEE ALSO

       easter_date(3).

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