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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Leap Year Checker...even more to it
Message-ID: <1990Sep30.064715.15589@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1115.26ff47b6@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <242@srchtec.UUCP> <4404@catfish11.UUCP> <1990Sep30.013852.8764@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 90 06:47:15 GMT

In article <1990Sep30.013852.8764@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> cak3g@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Colin Klipsch) writes:
>   if (year%4000 == 0) return FALSE;
>With the addition of the divisible-by-4000 condition, the Gregorian
>calendar is now accurate to one day in 20,000 years...

My recollection is that the leap-millenium rule has never been formally
adopted by religious or political authorities, so it is *not* part of
the Gregorian calendar at this time.  (We've got a little while left
before we need a decision, after all... :-))
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