clarification on julian/gregorian calendars & Easter

L C J Jacobson jacobson at gte.net
Wed Apr 30 15:26:23 UTC 1997


>There will be no leap day in the year 2000, so the disparity between the
>two calendars will not increase:

Sorry to drag this out, but one of the above statements is incorrect.

Instead of asking one another, some acolytes may prefer to consult the
Omniscient Oracles of Science, such as NIST

<http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/faq/q28.htm>

or the Royal Greenwich Observatory

<http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/pubinfo/leaflets/2000/2000.html>,

among other resources.

-jake the unworthy



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