Followup to: <E128UW5-0006dS-00@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > 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
>
That is true for the U.K. and former colonies only (1752). Various
countries changed between 1582 (Catholic countries) to 1918 (Russia.)
-hpa
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