Re: [svlug] February 30th 2000

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 15:37:15 EST


> 2000 is the first century year to be a leap year since 1600.
> 1700, 1800, 1900 were all 4 years since the last leap year,
> but they were not leap years because they could not be
> evenly divided by 400.

Not quite true.

1700 is a leap year. The current rules used for the leap year skipping post date
1700 8). Real the "cal" source one day if you are interested in calendars - its
fascinating

Alan

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