Re: Feb 29, 2000

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

Joe  the  equation  basically  begins with divide  by 400  
IF no  remainder  STOP =  Leap Year

Since 2000 divides evenly by 4  your current  leap year 
divide by 4  routines  should still work. Unless you  were
doing some  xx00  testing before <??>

At 11:25 AM 9/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I thought the leap year rule stated that any year evenly divisible
>by 4 was a leap year unless it was also evenly divisible by 400
>and then it wasn't. That would make 1700, 1800 and 1900 leap
>years, but 2000 wouldn't be. Yet everywhere I look, it shows a
>Feb 29th in 2000 (calendars, PIM software, OS/400 date data
>types, etc). I seem remember a thread on this list a while back
>and it was stated that 2000 wasn't a leap year. Can anyone set
>me straight here.
>
>Joe Teff
>




Regards,

Glenn
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