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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Sorting by date (was: Tracking Al Einstein)
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Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 08:10:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 08:10:02 1987
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In article <501@ncspm.ncsu.edu> jay@ncspm.UUCP (Jay Smith) writes:
> And what about in 112 years and three months when all those electronic
> calendars decide that 2100 is a leap year?  I have yet to see one that
> doesn't assume that leap years occur EVERY four years.

	Unix's "cal" command knows about the "if it's divisible by 4,
except if it's divisible by 100 but not by 400" rule.  Try "cal 2 2100" (or
"cal 9 1752" for trivia buffs).  I don't suppose those $2.99 LCD
clock/calendars are so sophisticated, however.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016