I seem to remember something from my Astronomy and Geography courses that
every 400 years, leap-year is supposed to be ignored, and it was decided
(by either those who implemented our current Gregorian calendar, or some
later refinement, I don't know), that the year 2000 was going to be one
of those years.

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From:  owner-hp3000-l[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:  Tuesday, October 08, 1996 3:17 PM
To:  HP3000-L
Subject:  Interesting date

For those of you not in digest mode you missed the following bit of
information:

>Date:     Sun, 2 Oct 2016 07:23:22 -0400
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>Subject:  HP3000-L Digest - 1 Oct 1996 to 2 Oct 1996
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>There are 2 messages totalling 39 lines in this issue.
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>Topics of the day:
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It's good to know that Oct 2, 2016 is a Sunday.  For those of you with
time
on your hands you can determine if the leap years were handled correctly
to
come to this conclusion.

Jeff,  Any idea why this date happened?

Sorry for the waste of bandwidth.
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