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From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Leap Year Checker...even more to it
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Date: 3 Oct 90 12:21:50 GMT
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In article <18359@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@kelp.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
)In article <1990Sep30.064715.15589@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
)>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... :-))
)
)Depends on *which* authorities.  As I understand it, America and most of
)Europe do not use a quadrimillenium correction, but some relgious/political
)entities do.  (No point to it, really, since the length of the year isn't
)sufficiently constant over that large a scale.)

Could anybody indicate which religious/political entities claim to use
the quadrimillenium correction?

Just curious,

Hans Mulder	hansm@cs.kun.nl