Re: Year 2000 Issue

["Dr. Peter Hill" <p.hill@fz-juelich.de>]

At 12:08 05.06.97 -0500, you wrote:
>At 11:32 AM 6/5/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>Just tried Excel from Office '95.
>>
>>Excel goes from Dec 31, 1999 to Jan 1, 2000 correctly, bu adds the
>>illegal Feb 29, 2000.
>>
>>Hopefully Office '97 gets it right.
>>-- 
>
>What's "illegal" about Feb 29?
>
>Donald Haes, Jr., CHP
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>
Though you usually put in a Feb 29 every 4 years there are some special
years like 2000 where this is *not* done. So 2000 has no Feb 29.
>

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