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  • Subject: Re: Feb 29, 2000
  • From: Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:46:38 -0700

Do you divide by 400 because we use AS/400's ?

What did we do when we were on S/38 ?'s ;-)

Chuck

Chris Bipes wrote:

> You got it backwards.  If the year is 00 then divide the century by 400.
> 1700, 1800, 1900 are NOT leap years and 2000 is.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Teff [mailto:jteff19@idt.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 9:25 AM
> To: Midrange Dot Com
> Subject: Feb 29, 2000
>
> 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
>
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