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- From: cmh004@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dave)
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- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 20:28:12 GMT
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- In article <6434@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> peter@serv2.essex.ac.uk (Peter Allott) writes:
- >Will there be a 29 Feb 2000?
-
- yes.
- leap_year is year/4 leaves no remainder
- except when year/100 leaves no remainder
- except when year/400 leaves no remainder
-
- So 2000 is divisible by 4,100 and 400 so it will be a leap year.
-
- >The cal program thinks so!
-
- I've never heard of this program until you mentioned it in your article.
- I've looked at the man page for it as well. The man page invites you to
- look at September 1752 - and its right again.
- Yet I can get cal to give me a calander for *January 1752* - no such
- month ever existed in England though the month would have existed in
- Scotland. 1/1752 would have been 1/1751 and what cal thinks is 2/1692
- is in fact 2/1691. Because until 1752 the year started on the 25th March.
-
- >As it also thinks 29 Feb 4000 will exist It's clearly wrong
- >some where.
-
- No cal is perfectly right in this respect.
-
- >What is the correct rule? Do all countries agree????
-
- Well I think all countries use the Georgian calander in international
- agreements, but some countries may use a different calander for their
- own personal use. The Orthodox church still uses the Jullian calander
- which today it is Tuesday 4th November 1992.
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- Dave cmh004@cck.cov.ac.uk
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