Re[2]: Leap Year

The actual scheme is we skip leep year on years that are divisible by 100, but NOT on years that are divisible by 400. Therefore the year 1900 was not a leap year, but 2000 is, and 2100 will not be. Hope this helps Sean Kedney Skedney@aol.com ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Leap Year Author: informix-list-owner@rmy.emory.edu at Internet Date: 3/1/96 07:58 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. However - SCO UNIX, INFORMIX, and even Microsoft allow the : date to be set to Feb-29 2000. And if Bill Gates has decreed it I guess : it must be right!!! : 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? The BBC (and other people) are right. We skip leap years on the millennia to fix what we screwed up by using the leap year.