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- From: clive@x.co.uk (Clive Feather)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.065452.20553@x.co.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 06:54:52 GMT
- References: <6434@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> <BxtIyL.LG2@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <6448@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
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- In article <6448@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> alan@essex.ac.uk writes:
- > OK: You're utterly blind to the way our adopted calendar has worked for
- > centuries.
-
- And so are you.
-
- > It isn't just a matter of checking divisibility by 4 - there are at least
- > 3 orders of correction, and I thought there were 4.
- > Until yesterday, I believed the complete rule was
- [wrong rule omitted]
- > But according to a colleague who checked the Encyclopeadia Britannica,
- > the rule is
- [another wrong rule omitted]
-
- The *correct* place to check is the New Calendar Act 1751, which is
- still in force (don't just believe me - check "Statutes in Force" at
- your local library). It clearly gives the rule as:
-
- If year divisible by 400, then leap year,
- else if year divisible by 100, then common year,
- else if year divisible by 4, then leap year,
- else common year.
-
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