Re: February 30th 2000

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 15:06:00 EST


> Our current (gregorian) rules come to
>
> 365 + 1/4 - 1/100 + 1/400 = 365.2425
>
> The difference with 365.24219878 is: .00030122, which means that every
> 3320 years or so, we're having one too many leap years. So, I would
> suggest that we make the year 3300 a leap year. And 6600, 9900, 13300
> and so on.... (*)

Years evenly divisible by 4000 are _not_ leap years. I only know of
one (nay, two shortly) piece of code which take this into account...

-cw

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