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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
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Subject: Re: Will Your SW Make it to the year 2000?
Summary: 2000 is a leap year
Keywords: Leap years
Message-ID: <3314@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 25 Jun 89 13:30:13 GMT
References: <4342@druhi.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <4342@druhi.ATT.COM> terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (TerrellE) writes:
>The Gregorian calendar reform makes every year evenly divisible by 4 a
>leap year EXCEPT for century years.  Consequently there is no January 29,
>2000.

Yes there is.  There is also a February 29, 2000.  Century years
divisible by 400 are leap years.

To be very precise, years divisible by 4000 are not leap years, so 2000
is a leap year, but 4000 is not.
-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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