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Re: "Ask Dr. Internet" for January, 1998
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Page)
Fri Jan 23 20:21:45 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:11:05 -0600
From: Richard Page <rpage@okway.okstate.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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Hi! Just a comment. There is a "lep-day" in 2000!
> Subject: "Ask Dr. Internet" for January, 1998
> Date: 1/21/98 2:06 PM
>
> Q00.
> More About Microsoft Including Internet Explorer in Windows.
>
> A000.
>
> An important question: not only is there a "year 2000" question facing a lot
> of people and computers in two years but a "newbie" who has been on the Net
> just one day just brought up the problem that there is not supposed to be a
> leap day of February 29th, in the year 2000, because it is evenly divisible by
> 400. I had the ddate program in place all along, before the year 2000
> thingies, and it cured the normal year 2000 problem with no effort. BUT I
> just tested it and it thinks there IS a February 29th, 2000.
>
> Any suggestions or comments?!?
The student and "Dr. Internet" have this wrong. The equation is:
There is a leap-day if the year is divisible by 4,
except when divisible by 100, unless it is also
divisible by 400.
This means that 1996 and 2000 are leap years, but not 1900 or 2100. There is
an additional qualifier that will effect the calculation of leap year at some
remote point in the future. It is not relevant to this discussion.
This brings up the caution, that if you have software that says there is no
February 29th in the year 2000, you need to upgrade it before then.
--Richard
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