Re: Year 2000 is NOT a leap year

Posted in 1997

ilya@technium.com — 16 Jul 1997 11:03:14 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

At 03:24 AM 7/16/97 CDT, billb@connect3.com wrote: >If the year can be divided evenly by 4, then the year is a leap year ... > Moffat wrote in article <33C29E37.5C51@email.mot.com>... >> The year 2000 is not a leap year. >> If I'm not mistaken, the actual rule is as follows: if the year is divisible by 4, it is a leap year, except when it ends with double zero (1200, 1600, 2000 (!) ). However, once every 1000 years we make an adjustment to this rule by making a millenium year a leap year. So, year 2000 IS a leap year. Informix accepts "02-29-2000" as a valid date. Eliott Shoichet.