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From: snorri@rhi.hi.is (Snorri Agnarsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Will Your SW Make it to the year 2000?
Message-ID: <1030@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 26 Jun 89 10:51:23 GMT
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Organization: University of Iceland
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From article <3880@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, by conan@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert B Carroll):
> 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.


Not so.  If I remember correctly, a year divisible by 100 is a leap year
if it is divisible by 400.  Therefore the year 2000 is a leap year.




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