Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbneb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbsck!cbneb!adm From: adm@cbneb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: Re: Answers to my trivium...(trivium Message-ID: <2959@cbneb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 16:21:41 EST Article-I.D.: cbneb.2959 Posted: Wed Feb 13 16:21:41 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 01:38:09 EST Sender: adm@cbneb.UUCP Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OHIO Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:sdchema:-32800:cbnap:14000002:000:684 Nf-From: cbnap!tjl Feb 13 15:02:00 1985 /***** cbnap:net.games.triv / sdchema!gino / 5:35 pm Feb 11, 1985 */ >Is it possible that there is something like a "super leap-year" that comes > > >> As I recall, there is an inherent (negative error) of about 3 days every >> 400 years. This is solved by NOT having leap years in years that end >> in "00", unless the year is divisible (sp?) by 400. Thus there is >> a leap year in 2000, but not in 1700, 1800, 1900, or 2100. The errors >> past this point are so small that they just add or subtract the >> minutes (or seconds) between years. Also I believe the Nat. Bur. of Standards gives us leap seconds on a day in June. (Does anyone know the details?) /* ---------- */