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From: jak <nospam@please.ty>
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Subject: Re: getFirstDayOfMonth()
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bart ha scritto:
> For most practical purposes and for the lifetimes of most of the 8 
> billion people on the planet, leap years do come every four years.
> 
> That's the case for years 1901 to 2099.
> 
> What exactly do you expect those news readers that reach a massive 
> audience to do, get into those details of being divisible or not by 100 
> or 400? Maybe they should also mention odd years like 1752 where there 
> was a calendar reform for even more exceptions to the rule.
> 
> Half the audience probably barely know what a leap year is.


You are right, but this usenet is followed by people, professionals and
computer enthusiasts. I would like to try to make a statistics but I
think at least 70% read somewhere how to determine if a year is a leap.
I, example, discovered this by writing my first management program in
Rmcobol almost 40 years ago.