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Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Fri Aug 9 11:17:22 EDT 2013


On Aug 9, 2013, at 4:34 AM, Gerard Ashton <ashtongj at comcast.net> wrote:


> Leap day implementation doesn't seem to do so well in years evenly divisible

> by 100. Also the choice of Julian or Gregorian calendar is related to leap

> days, and keeping track of which country (or subdivision thereof) switched

> on which date is dumped upon the end user.


And even though the implementation remains imperfect, neither Julian nor Gregory proposed doing away with leap days and pretending that the year is an integral number of (solar) days.

Rob



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