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From: tlg@ukc.ac.uk (T.L.Goodwin)
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Subject: Re: Leap Year Checker.
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Date: 3 Oct 90 14:10:39 GMT
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In article <654522456@grad11.cs.duke.edu> drh@duke.cs.duke.edu 
(D. Richard Hipp) writes:
>...
>Russia waited until the 20th century before "going Gregorian".
>...

Aha, but the Russian system (where the year is a leap year iff the
remainder on division by 7 is 2 or 6) is actually more accurate* than
the Gregorian system, as well as not having the confusion at the end of
a century.

*i.e. better compensates for the fact that 1 year != 365 days

Regards,

Tim.
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