Klarinet Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 2000/01

From: "James O'Briant" <jobriant@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Y2K
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:47:46 -0500

Someone observed --

> > Apparently there's an
> > every-400 year exception to the rule that centuries aren't leap
> > years ...

Benjamin Maas replied:

> If this is true (and I have heard it before), why do all of my calendars
> have a Feb 29 on it?

When the Georgian calendar was adopted, it was done to correct errors in the
old Julian calendar, which by then was 11 days off. Here are the leap year
rules:

(1) If a year is divisible by 4, it's a leap year, and it will have a Feb
29.

(2) Exception to (1): If a year is divisible by 100, it won't be a leap year
after all. (Thus the years 1800 and 1900, although divisible by 4, were NOT
leap years.)

(3) Exception to (2): If a year is divisible by 400, then is WILL be a leap
year after all. (Thus 2000 is a leap year and we will have a Feb. 29 this
year.)

And the relation of this to the clarinet is: If you want to practice your
clarinet every day, you will be able to do so on February 29, 2000.

Jim O'Briant
Bayside Music Press
Gilroy, CA

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