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- From: okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
- Message-ID: <OKES.93Jan22141248@SunLab43.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:12:48 GMT
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- In-reply-to: alan@essex.ac.uk [Alan M Stanier]'s message of 21 Jan 93 10:49:50 GMT
-
- In article <7632@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> alan@essex.ac.uk [Alan M Stanier] writes:
- | Also sprach M.E.Bullivant@bradford.ac.uk (Martin Bullivant)
- | }Yes there will be a 29th February 2000, 3000 and 4000 (any year divisible by
- | }1000)
- | }
- | }Leap years occur in every year divisible by 4 EXCEPT if it's divisble by 100.
- | }However years divisible by 400 ARE leap years.
- | }
- |
- | So how does 3000 make it?
-
- It doesn't. Not when I run cal, anyway. However, by the time the year 3000
- arrives, the calendar system will probably have been metricised (damn the
- Eurocrats) and the concept of leap years may have disappeared altogether.
-
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- Simon Oke, 3rd year Computer Science
- undergraduate at the University of Essex, UK.
-