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Subject:Re: Another thing about 2000 From:Richard Mateosian <srm -at- C2 -dot- ORG> Date:Thu, 1 Feb 1996 08:59:20 -0800
>Simply to avoid patching so many programs, I suppose 2000
>will indeed be a leap year.
It will indeed be a leap year -- not because of programmer laziness, but
because years divisible by 400 are leap years. This is a tiny correction to
balance the overcorrection of not making leap years out of years divisible
by 100. ...RM
