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Re: 1600 - ,missing days - was Feb 29, 2000

  • Subject: Re: 1600 - ,missing days - was Feb 29, 2000
  • From: John P Carr <jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:24:41 -0400
 

>>"Schenck, Don" wrote: 
>> Funny ... I don't REMEMBER 1600 being a leap year ...

>No, it wasn't. But they didn't use leap seconds then either.  ;-)
>The Gregorian calendar had just been introduced that century(!?!? or was
>it the one before?)

Remember that in 173x (close to there)   we lost 3 or 4 days when they
corrected
the calandar.   See if that those missing days are a valid *ISO  date.
They shouldn't
be because they never happened.

John Carr

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