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: 103376,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: fa0ae,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gidfa0ae,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,be6b7e036aa9236c X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: Dr John Stockton Subject: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Date: 1996/09/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 184848967 distribution: inet x-nntp-posting-host: merlyn.demon.co.uk references: <51bv60$8d@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> organization: Home, Surrey, UK mime-version: 1.0 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: 1996-09-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <32462521.76DD@godin.on.ca> of Mon, 23 Sep 1996 01:50:25 in comp.lang.pascal.misc, Randy MacDonald wrote: >I've reposted this message from Roger Hui, since his access to >the newsgroup didn't allow for posting to the other groups. >With apologies to the comp.lang.apl folk... > > ... > >A more recent and complete leap year rule specifies that years >divisible by 4000 are common (not leap) years. > ... That is a reasonable proposal - though AFAIR 3200 might be better than 4000 - but it has NO AUTHORITY. The present calendar has a 400-year cycle. Links to some references are via the URL below. -- John Stockton, Surrey, UK. JRS@merlyn.demon.co.uk Turnpike v1.12 MIME http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/