Re: February 30th 2000

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 21:53:13 EST


Followup to: <20000112221658.A9021@suse.cz>
By author: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi!
>
> It's simple, there won't be any Feb 30. All the rules are about Feb 29
> only. Every 4 years yes. Every 100 no. Every 400 yes. And there are
> more, but those aren't important to us ... it's all approximation of the
> year's length.
>

Actually, there are no more rules. Sometime around Y6K someone has to
make up an additional rule, assuming we still use the Gregorian
calendar then.

        -hpa

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