Thus it was written in the epistle of Wirt Atmar,
>
> There is an easy test for to see if UNIX has it at least basically
> right, regardless of the adopted changeover date: Are the years 1000,
> 1200, and 1204 all leap years? They are under the Julian calendar -- and
> must be in the computed calendar if the reported days are to be correct.
> If all three dates are not leap years, the Gregorian algorithm is being
> erroneously applied beyond its bounds.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
Wirt,
  At least on BSDI Unix, things seem to be ok.

cal 2 1000
   February 1000
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
             1  2  3
 4  5  6  7  8  9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29

cal 2 1200
   February 1200
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
       1  2  3  4  5
 6  7  8  9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29

cal 2 1204
   February 1204
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29

Ted
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