From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b1850e397df49d95 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: 2000 is a leap year (was: How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Inte) Date: 1996/12/30 Message-ID: <1996Dec30.071509.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 206740828 x-nntp-posting-host: eisner.decus.org references: <01bbf058$cbdbf980$LocalHost@jerryware> <1996Dec23.072835.1@eisner> <01bbf179$0c4361e0$9b2d5c8b@jerryware> <01bbf24c$a8db4800$b72d5c8b@jerryware> <32C2A408.53B8@watson.ibm.com> <32C78CD9.3AC9@mcs.com> x-nntp-posting-user: KILGALLEN x-trace: 851948174/21796 organization: LJK Software newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-12-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <32C78CD9.3AC9@mcs.com>, Mike Young writes: > ====== > I believe the year 2000 is *not* a leap year. I recall vaguely they skip > a leap year every 200 years, such that it's a leap year if the number is > evenly divisible by 4 and not by 200. Year 2000 certainly _is_ a leap year, as the rule laid down by the Pope many years ago (after receiving advice of leading scientists of the time) was: Years which are even multiples of 4 - yes except... Years which are even multiples of 100 - no except... Years which are even multiples of 400 - yes Larry Kilgallen Not an official spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church :-)