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That was my first programming language! But it's more likely they used assembler or custom code to save storage. And yes, I remember moving bits and bytes while being careful to avoid "collisions". Protected memory wasn't always a thing back then.

Germany instituted DST ("Sommerzeit", or summer time) in 1916 during WWI to save coal rather than just electricity. They were the first to adopt it nationwide, but cities and regions in other parts of the world had implemented it as early as 1908. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

This article contains two misstatements. The actual length of a solar year is 365.24+ days rather than 365.25, or about 11 minutes less. That tiny difference is critical to the Gregorian algorithm which the author also muddles with the statement that the calendar makes "... century years that...