75% speedup for zdump on 64-bit Solaris sparc

Paul Eggert eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU
Thu Mar 9 00:46:23 UTC 2006


Ken Pizzini <tz. at explicate.org> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:14:29AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Wait a minute.  Is 400 years enough?  The number of days in 400
>> Gregorian years is not divisible by 7,
>
> Yes it is.
>
>  303*365 + 97*366 = 146097 = 20871 * 7

Aack!  You're right.  Sorry about the noise.  (I mistyped a digit when
I calculated it.)

But I still don't understand why there are so many entries in the
table at runtime.



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