ANST - Leap Year (was The New **********)

[Michael Tucker]

Greetings from Michael Silverhands, who's been accused of being your friendly
local pedant (look it up *grin*):

Please see <http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/leapyear/leapyear.html>, which
says (in part):

Information Leaflet No. 48: `Leap Years' 

LEAP YEARS 

The calendar year is 365 days long, unless the year is exactly divisible by 4,
in which case an extra day is added to February to make the year 366 days long.
If the year is the last year of a century, eg. 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, then it
is only a leap year if it is exactly divisible by 400. Therefore, 1900 wasn't a
leap year but 2000 will be.

[snip]

Pope Gregory XIII, in 1582, instituted the Gregorian calendar, which has been
used since then. 

The change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian involved the change of the
simple rule for leap-years to the more complex one in which century years should
only be leap-years if they were divisible by 400. For example, 1700, 1800 and
1900 are not leap-years whereas 2000 will be. 

[snip]

Produced by the Information Services Department of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.


Rod Jackson wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Is anyone besides myself upset that all of the
> calenders for 2000 A.D. are incorrect?
> 
> When His Holiness created the Gregorian Calender in
> 1582, he stipulated that there would be and added day
> every four years EXCEPT those century ENDING years
> divisible by 400 (1600, *2000*, 2400, etc).  Those
> years would not have the extra day.  All of the
> calenders that I have seen so far have a 29th of
> February clearly marked. OOPS!!!!
> 
> Think of all the paper wasted!
> 
> Alright, what are we going to do about this?
> 
> I personally am going to ignore the "29th of February"
> in protest.
> 
> They only have one chance every 400 years and sure
> enough, they screwed it up!!
> 
> I love this Dream!!!
> 
> Cullinn
>
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