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From: SCHAFER@RICE.BITNET (Richard A. Schafer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Will Your SW Make it to the year 2000?
Message-ID: <1138SCHAFER@RICE>
Date: 25 Jun 89 21:31:24 GMT
References: <4342@druhi.ATT.COM> <3880@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Organization: Rice University - ICSA
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In article <3880@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, conan@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert B Carroll) says:
>In article <4342@druhi.ATT.COM> terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (TerrellE) writes:
>>Will your software make it into the 21st century?  Does it cope with the
>>Gregorian calendar reform of the 16th century?
>>
>if the year is divisible by 4 and not divisible by 100 then its
>a leap year. who ever counts the year 2000 as a leap yr will have a problem.
Wrong.  The year 2000 is in fact a leap year, based on the additional
rule that a year divisible by 400 *is* a leap year, i.e., there is a leap
day every 4th century year.

Richard