Re: February 30th 2000

[Chris Wedgwood]

> Our current (gregorian) rules come to 
> 
> 	365 + 1/4 - 1/100 + 1/400 = 365.2425
> 
> The difference with 365.24219878 is: .00030122, which means that every
> 3320 years or so, we're having one too many leap years. So, I would
> suggest that we make the year 3300 a leap year. And 6600, 9900, 13300
> and so on.... (*)

Years evenly divisible by 4000 are _not_ leap years. I only know of
one (nay, two shortly) piece of code which take this into account...

-cw