Leap's Day is a story about the calendar, friendship and the things that make us special. Join Leap as he sets out to find a special day - a "birthday" - for each one of his friends, only to discover that he must first create a calendar. Leap works with his dad to unravel the mystery of years, months, days and dates - and of course that pesky little day that comes along just once every four years.
On her fourth Leap birthday, when she turns sixteen, Josie has a number of momentous experiences, including taking her driver's test, auditioning for a school play, and celebrating with her family and friends.
An invaluable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists, astronomers, and other calendar enthusiasts, The Ultimate Edition updates and expands the previous edition to achieve more accurate results and present new calendar variants. The book now includes coverage of Unix dates, Italian time, the Akan, Icelandic, Saudi Arabian Umm al-Qura, and Babylonian calendars. There are also expanded treatments of the observational Islamic and Hebrew calendars and brief discussions of the Samaritan and Nepalese calendars. Several of the astronomical functions have been rewritten to produce more accurate results and to include calculations of moonrise and moonset. The authors frame the calendars of the world in a completely algorithmic form, allowing easy conversion among these calendars and the determination of secular and religious holidays. LISP code for all the algorithms is available in machine-readable form.
Larry Briney is a graduate of LIFE Bible College, Los Angeles, Class of 1956, and is currently Associate Pastor of Valley Christian Center in Fresno, California. He has been in active ministry for 53 years, having served churches in Illinois for 5 years, in Eureka, California for 24 years, and in Fresno, California for nearly 24 years. He and his wife Beth have been married for 55 years and have 3 children, 5 grandchildren, and 3 great grandchildren. Larry is a speaker, writer, counselor, multi-media creator, and Macintosh Computer consultant. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and has led 14 groups on study tours of Israel and other countries in the Mediterranean region.
Considers H.J. Res. 334, requesting the President to propose the calling of an international conference for the simplification of the calendar, or to accept, on behalf of the U.S., an invitation to participate in such a conference.
