Re: [svlug] February 30th 2000

[Khimenko Victor]

In <[e-mail]> Alan Cox ([e-mail]) wrote:
>> 2000 is the first century year to be a leap year since 1600.
>> 1700, 1800, 1900 were all 4 years since the last leap year,
>> but they were not leap years because they could not be
>> evenly divided by 400.

> Not quite true.

> 1700 is a leap year. The current rules used for the leap year skipping post date
> 1700 8). Real the "cal" source one day if you are interested in calendars - its
> fascinating

And wrong :-(( Here in Moscow 1900 year was leap year too. cal does not
handle it (of course it does not handle five days week of 20th and other weird
things like that too).