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  3. From: gdg019@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Ridley McIntyre)
  4. Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
  5. Message-ID: <BxtIyL.LG2@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
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  8. Organization: Pig Heaven, Coventry, UK
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  11. Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:54:11 GMT
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  14. In article <6434@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> peter@serv2.essex.ac.uk (Peter Allott) writes:
  15. >Will there be a 29 Feb 2000?
  16. >
  17. >The cal program thinks so!
  18.  
  19. Your cal program has it right. Think. This year's a leap year. So's 1996.
  20. Therefore, so's 2000. If I'm utterly blind to the way our adopted calendar
  21. has worked for centuries, then please correct me.
  22.  
  23. Thanks.
  24.  
  25. -- 
  26.                   Ridley McIntyre - Ronin Ironpig
  27. *On a Flowery         gdg019@cck.coventry.ac.uk          Space Trip!*
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  29. "The thing about Conventionalism is that it f**ks up everything" - Leon Hunt
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