> And why does ``t = (time((time_t *)0) / YEAR) * YEAR;`` on line 608 have > to divide by YEAR and then multiply by YEAR? Shouldn't those cancel out? I guess it should have used // instead of /. (X//Y)*Y is a standard way to round X down to a whole multiple of Y, and I presume that's what the code here does. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)