Re: Leap Year

In article <DnKBo2.1yy@cix.compulink.co.uk>, Malcolm Weallans <onlinedbc@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote: >It was officially stated by the BBC - not known for their gaffes - that >this is the last leap year for 8 years. So year 2000 is not going to be >a leap year. Sorry, Malcolm. The BBC is no less fallible than US news services in this regard. 2000 is a leap year. >I attempted to check this out using an encyclopeadia but it didn't say >anyhting beyond 400 year boundaries, and other people are quoting a rule >about the millennium. If the whole computer industry has got it wrong >are we all going to have some fun in 4 years time? What a lame encyclopaedia! -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com "You know 1994 is a leap year; there is a 29th of February this year. People with digital watches are in heap big trouble, because there's no way in Hell they'll know about it." -- Rush Limbaugh 1/03/94