OT: patenting an old year/date concept, to make millions

Rumor has it that Jerome Fine may have mentioned these words: Anyone else have any stories about using a pivot date some time ago! Jerome Fine <<<< To bring this on-topic, I used that technique back in the mid-late 80's in all of my software that I wrote (for myself mind you...) in Basic09, under OS-9 on my CoCo2 & 3. I made & packed a routine to do that automatically, then just linked in the code with the routine with any program that I wrote that needed that functionality. I'm not bragging... I'm sure there are a *lot* of folks here that figured that out a lot earlier than I did. It's really not brain surgery, after all. That guy needs to be slapped... Hard... in the face... with a frozen mackerel!!! ;-) (that's a quote from a guy on my Model 100 list... so that's even on-topic! ;-) See ya, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.