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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Will Your SW Make it to the year 2000?
Message-ID: <800@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 89 14:51:33 GMT
References: <4342@druhi.ATT.COM> <3880@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Root)
Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
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In article <3880@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> conan@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert B Carroll) writes:
>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.

As has been pointed out before, there's another level of exceptions for years
divisible by 400.  That pope must have had some pretty good astronomers for
that day and age, but they got it pretty close to right.

2000 is a leap year.  Whoever fails to count it so will have a problem.

Who wants to bet there aren't some confused calendar publishers that year?