Stan is right. I double-checked "Normally" there is no leap year at the end of a Century "except" those divisible by 400. From CalTech: URL: http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~eww/astro/lnode5.html Summary: In the Gregorian Calendar currently in use worldwide, there is a leap year every year divisible by four except for years divisible by 100 and not divisible by 400. Therefore, the year 2000 will be a leap year. ---------- From: owner-hp3000-l[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 1996 3:02 PM To: HP3000-L Subject: Re: Interesting date Tracy writes: > 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 ... > later refinement, I don't know), that the year 2000 was going to be one > of those years. Only in the sense that 2000 is evenly divisible by 400. :) 2000 is a leap year, so 2000-02-29 is a valid date that year. -- Stan Sieler [log in to unmask] http://www.allegro.com/sieler.html