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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.fcku.it!peer01.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx25.am4.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Spiros Bousbouras Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada case-statement References: <365d65ea-5f4b-4b6a-be9b-1bba146394ab@googlegroups.com> <30fbf68e-b002-468d-9a8d-71cb457b0d03@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: X-Organisation: Weyland-Yutani Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 06:57:30 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 06:57:30 GMT X-Received-Bytes: 1484 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3320768506 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51056 Date: 2018-03-18T06:57:30+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 01:41:05 -0400 "Robert I. Eachus" wrote: > In the other direction, even the Gregorian calendar isn't perfect and a > leap day will need to be skipped every few thousand years. Probably > either Feb. 29th, 3000 or Feb. 29th, 4000 won't occur. 3000 isn't a leap year because 3000 is divisible by 100 but not by 400. > My guess is that > the latter date will win out. When it starts to become an issue in the > late thirtieth century, it will be easier to put it off for another > thousand years. (I just hope I'm around to see it. ;-)