Klarinet Archive - Posting 000117.txt from 2000/01

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Y2K
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 13:42:12 -0500

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:19:21 -0600 (CST), "Edwin V. Lacy" wrote:
>
>On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Benjamin Maas wrote:
>
>> If this is true (and I have heard it before), why do all of my
>> calendars have a Feb 29 on it?
>
>A year which ends in two zeros, such as 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, etc., is a
>leap year only if it also is evenly divisible by 400. So, 1600 was a leap
>year, 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not, 2000 is, etc.

Well, 1700 was a leap year in SOME parts of the world. Britain and its
colonies did not adopt the Gregorian changes until 1752.

What a mess that must have been, with some parts of Europe calling the date
"June 10, 1750" and some calling it "June 21, 1750".

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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