<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Had reason to look up the Gregorian Calendar. </div><div><br></div><div>Reading its history and "mechanics of adoption" made me think of drop frame time code with irregularities being used to slew VTRs to sync, and a bunch of roll-ins happening at different times during a running edit. Good Grief! </div><div><br></div><div>And there was one Feb. 30 in the history of the Gregorian Calendar. Only affected two machines... er, countries.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/gregorian-calendar.html">http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/gregorian-calendar.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you think there's a better calendar to even out timing errors, guess again!</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/date/perfect-calendar.html">http://www.timeanddate.com/date/perfect-calendar.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>It's no wonder that we have a world full of problems. We're not synced!</div><div><br></div><div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" style="font-size: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Ted</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Quad Videotape Group</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div>
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