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: f7be1,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gidf7be1,public X-Google-Thread: 11390f,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: fa0ae,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public From: harper@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (John Harper) Subject: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Date: 1996/09/25 Message-ID: <52a2d6$4v7@totara.its.vuw.ac.nz>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185152903 distribution: inet references: <51bv60$8d@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> <3242D1EB.3F54@ford.com> <32462521.76DD@godin.on.ca> organization: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.rexx,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.smalltalk Date: 1996-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <32462521.76DD@godin.on.ca>, Randy MacDonald wrote: > From: Roger Hui >Organization: UofNB News Gateway, Fredericton, CANADA > Newsgroups:comp.lang.apl > >A more recent and complete leap year rule specifies that years >divisible by 4000 are common (not leap) years. No point considering this one yet. Calendars are legal matters (they determine when payments are due, when public holidays are, and so on) Unless and until some government incorporates the 4000-year rule in its laws, we may as well go on using the Gregorian rule (except of course that there is a Greek? rule that has a 2-exceptions-every-900-years rule instead of 1-exception-every-400-years. John Harper Mathematics Dept. Victoria University Wellington New Zealand