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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: Computer bugs in the year 4000
Message-ID: <6974@watdaisy.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Feb-85 20:53:59 EST
Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6974
Posted: Sun Feb 17 20:53:59 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Feb-85 06:34:53 EST
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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>    HI KIDS!!!  It's time for another bedtime story from Uncle Pac-Man.
>    -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 	     Uniform  rule:  All years consists of 365 days, except
> 	     1st exception:  Any year divisible by 4 has 366 days, except
> 	     2nd exception:  Any year divisible by 100 has 365 days
> 			     unless also divisible by 400, in which case
> 			     it has 366 days, except
> 	     3rd exception:  Any year divisible by 4000 has 365 days

My understanding was that only one country in the world has adopted the rule
with all three exceptions, and that we in the "free world" break the law if
we apply the third exception!
-- 

   Norman Diamond

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