From:	"Ehrbar" <ehrbar AT oeonline DOT com>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Y2K fix
Date:	Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:56:18 -0500
Message-ID:	<01bd3f1b$eb625980$LocalHost@win95>
MIME-Version:	1.0

>The way leap years are handled is that if the year is devisible by 4, it's
>a leap year, unless the year is devisible by 400, in which case it is not
>considered a leap year.

Umm, no.  The Julian calendar counted every fourth year as a leap year.  
The problem was that this added just about 3 extra days every 4 centuries.
That's why the Gregorian calendar adjusted that by designating that every 
year divisible by 100 is *not* a leap year unless divisible by 400.

This is according to the following sources:  
    The World Almanac and Book of Facts (1991)
    The Information Please Almanac (1997)
    Reader's Digest Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary (1987)
    Compton's New Century Encyclopedia and Reference Collection II (1995)
    The Software Toolworks Multimedia Encyclopedia (1992)
    The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia (1991, MS Bookshelf edition)
    The World Almanac and Book of Facts (1994, MS Bookshelf edition)
    The New American Desk Encyclopedia (1989)

Steven Ehrbar, Lord of Trivial Research.

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