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- From: cmh004@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dave)
- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
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- Organization: Lanchester Polytechnic
- References: <2222@mrcu> <2239@stalin> <1992Nov20.215407.19578@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:40:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.215407.19578@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
- >In article <2239@stalin> nic@uk.co.gec-mrc (Nick Chapman) writes:
- >>Cal says that there was a February 29th in year 1700.
- >>Is this because the 100 & 400 year rules hadn't yet started?
- >Yes. England used the Julian calendar until 1752, where the rule
- >was simply that every fourth year was a leap year. The extra days
- >in years like 1700 were what caused the calendar to get eleven
- >days behind.
-
- Cal is wrong. February in 1700 had 28 days. February in 1699 had 29 days.Yet
- I reckon that historians would say that 1700 did have a leap year, for
- simplicties sake.
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- Dave cmh004@cck.cov.ac.uk
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