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From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: why 1904?  ms excel
Message-ID: <746@pmafire.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 89 21:04:15 GMT
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Reply-To: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
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In article <8909061947.AA00416@vs04csc.UMD.EDU> russotto@wam.UMD.EDU writes:
>There is an easier leap year rule for dates
>starting in 1904 and going to a date < 2100.  That is, for those
>dates, a leap year is any year divisible by 4.  If you include 1900,
>a leap year is any year divisible by four that is either not divisible
>by 100, or is divisible by 400.

OK, so why start with 1904?

Why not 1901?

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Geoff Allen - WINCO Computer Process Engineering
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Disclaimer:  WINCO doesn't believe in Macs, so of course these are my views.