Re: Y2k compliance

Erik Corry (erik@arbat.com)
Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:29:42 +0100


In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.981205141153.1854F-100000@filesrv1.baby-dragons.com> you wrote:

> Hello All, OK.. somebodies program says divisable by 400
> is still a leap year.

> Where is it Defined ? , ie: some document publically available .
> (prefered on the web from a known standards body) Tia

The relevant standards body in this case is the Catholic Church.
It's an old standard :-).

But as I don't know of a URL on this at
the Vatican, you could do worse than to see
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/RGO/leaflets/leapyear/leapyear.html
for something official from the Royal Greenwich
Observatory.

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Erik Corry erik@arbat.com           Ceterum censeo, Microsoftem esse delendam!

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