Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-49,: Re: Y2k compliance

# Re: Y2k compliance

Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com)
Sun, 6 Dec 1998 13:03:21 -0800 (PST)

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Hello All, Out of the 9 direct replies I have gotten so far
only 5 have mentioned where a -document- (non-vatican included)
was at that had a known description of the derivation for the
leap year calculation . This is all I needed .

Yes People, I didn't know that if a year was divisable by 400
it was a leap year .
PS: their quotes are below , A special thanks to these people ;-)

Thank you all, JimL
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1> From: "[iso-8859-1] Horacio J. Peña" <horape@compendium.com.ar>
...snip...
> Try www.va :-)

2> From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
...snip...
> The 'known standard body' is the Vatican with the authority of Pope
> Gregor XII "the great". The standard was issued in 1582 in form
> of his "Inter Gravissimas" bull. See
> http://ecuvax.cis.ecu.edu/~pymccart/inter-grav.html for an reproduction
> of the standard, to read the original you need to know Latin.

3> From: Tom Sedge <tom@cognality.com>
...snip...
> I refer you to J. S. Connell's earlier post to this list (below).
...
> > From ankh@canuck.gen.nz Sun Dec 6 15:42:56 1998
...
> > And an even less-well-known rule, obviously, is that years divisible by 400
> > *are* leap years. See http://www.amherst.edu/~atstarr/leapday.html, among
> > other calendrically-oriented sites.
> >
> > Mr. Myréen asked whether 2000 being a leap year is a problem, since people
> > who know the /100 rule probably know the /400 rule as well. I neither wish
> > to single out Mr. Shore nor make an example out of him, but it appears that
> > Mr. Myréen's optimism is ill-founded.
> >
> > (Another rarely-known fact is that the leap day is not the 29th of
> > February. It's actually the 24th. Inter Gravissimus (-mas?) can make for
> > interesting reading, when you're bored.)

4> From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
...snip...
> The 'known standard body' is the Vatican with the authority of Pope
> Gregor XII "the great". The standard was issued in 1582 in form
> of his "Inter Gravissimas" bull. See
> http://ecuvax.cis.ecu.edu/~pymccart/inter-grav.html for an reproduction
> of the standard, to read the original you need to know Latin.

5> From: Erik Corry <erik@arbat.com>
...snip...
> The relevant standards body in this case is the Catholic Church.
> It's an old standard :-).
>
> But as I don't know of a URL on this at
> the Vatican, you could do worse than to see
> http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/RGO/leaflets/leapyear/leapyear.html
> for something official from the Royal Greenwich
> Observatory.

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