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- From: J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley)
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- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:14:04 GMT
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- malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S. Muir") writes:
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- >>peter@serv2.essex.ac.uk (Peter Allott) writes:
- >>>Will there be a 29 Feb 2000?
- >>>
- >>>The cal program thinks so!
-
- >If a year is divisable by 100, it is only a leap year if it is divisable
- >by 400.
-
- That's what I understood the rule to be, too.
-
- >Next argument - I say the first year of the 21st. century is 2001, not 2000
- >which is the last year of the 20th. century.
-
- I don't see how anyone could argue with this.
-
- The romans had no zero (thinks: how did they indicate correct termination
- of their C programs?:-) so the first year of the first century AD must have
- been year 1.
-
- Therefore, the first year of the second century must have been 101, the
- first year of the third century 201... and so on to the first year of the
- twenty-first century, 2001.
-
-
- /jon (hoping this article gets off-site... this time)
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