Re: Year 2000 leap year?

Posted in 1997

Bryan Tonnet — 14 Jan 1997 09:06:20 +1100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In <19970113213100.QAA09888@ladder01.news.aol.com> krknight@aol.com (KRKnight) writes: >Is the year 2000 a leap-year? I know this has been hashed over many times >but I was wondering if any decision was "officially" made. The way it >looks, Informix Online 7.12.UC1 allows the date "02/29/2000" to be entered >into the system. Any news greatly appreciated. In order to try and circumvent the inevitable long thread, this is a (not necessarily 'the' :) definitive answer. Leap years occur every 4 years (bet you didn't know that!) except in century years. However, century years that are divisible by 400 *do* have a leap year. Therefore 29/02/2000 *is* valid, and is also a once every 400 years occurence. Bryan Tonnet batonnet@zeta.org.au