Re: Y2K, RFC 2459, . . .

[Tony Bartoletti <azb@xxxxxxxx>]

I believe the rules for "leap year" adjustments are as follows:

  A leap-day is added every year divisible by 4,
    EXCEPT if year is divisible by 100 (no leap-day added)
	UNLESS year is divisible by 400 (ordinary leap-day added).

So, the year 2000 is an ordinary leap year, being divisible by 400.

___tony___

At 06:06 PM 10/29/99 EDT, Bjjgarrity@aol.com wrote:
>Reading, w/out having kept up to date w/ISO issues . . . 
>I've have been watching for, and not seeing comments addressing the 
>requirement of our calendar to add an extra Leap Day after the year 2000.
>
>As I recall, the calendar we have was designed to best keep accurate with the 
>sun, and requires a leap day every 4 yrs.  This schedule, also, calls for and 
>additional day every 1000 years.  The intent was to add it after the 
>millennium.  As the calendar truly recognizes the year 2000 as the last year 
>in this millennium, it seems that we were to add an additional day during the 
>1st year of the next millennium, 2001.
>
>Where is this issue being addressed?  Or, has this path been abandoned by all 
>parties concerned.  (Initially, the entire Christian world . . . perhaps only 
>the Catholic churches.)
>
>

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