"Bjorn Damm" <bjornd@mail.invalid> wrote in message
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"Nick"  skrev i meddelandet
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I know the 5th birthday was on 21st May this year, but I found this

page:

http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/classpages/days/2451239.html

which has people who registered on Monday March 1st 1999.

Any explanations?

When I found S@H in the summer 1998 they were alphatesting the software.
(Here is a screenshot from the 1998 version:
http://members.chello.se/bjornd/1998Screen.jpg )

In the fall 1998 the stoped distributing the software. Users from this

early

period are registred as "1 March 1999". In spring 1999 there were quite a
lot of persons wating on their doorstep and they let a few in  at the time
and the big crowd was let in on 21st May 1999.

So the big birthday isn't the real one... just the big one. Oh well, thanks
for the explanation.

Oh, and can anyone explain the numbering system at the end of the web
address for registration classes? The 2451*** up to 2453***, as far as I

can

tell, assuming that the date directly corresponds to the number, which

it

does appear to, then "1" would have been about 6,770 years ago. I'd like

to

know the significance of the starting date, if any.

It is the "Julian day number", Number of days since 1 January, 4713 BC

/Bj�rn

Can't say I've ever heard of it. But ok. Excel does the same thing with
dates but counts from 1/1/1900, and anything earlier is a negative date
which just shows as #########.

Thanks for the explanations.

Nick