Time Flys Like An Arrow; Fruit Flies Like A Banana

Posted by: Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek, on 08 May 2009 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

We recently released my video on the new Animation Transition Control and in looking it over I noticed that I promised to follow up on the definition of a Date/Time Tick A quick look at Wikipedia reveals any number of problems with attempting to count the number of nanoseconds from the date 1/1/01. Without diving too deep into this bit of trivia, I will note that the Gregorian calendar used in civil affairs (in which today is May 8, 2009 AD or CE) attempted to fix errors in the Julian calendar...

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