On 3/23/08 8:49 AM, in article klsFj.8401$9O.3891@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Judson McClendon" <judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
....
>
> It is unlikely that the Gregorian Calendar will remain unchanged past
year
> 4000 or so, because of ***ulative divergence from the solar year, and by
> year 4000 it will be whole day off. There have already been attempts to
> correct the divergence by changing the leap year rule. The current rule
is
> "If year is MOD 4 then it's a leap year, unless it's MOD 100 then it
isn't,
> unless it's MOD 400 then it is." The new rule would add "unless it's MOD
> 4000 then it isn't."
>
Perhaps by then we will correct the REAL problem, by correcting the speed
of
this planet's orbit?
Would it be preferable to make it exactly 365 days? Or maybe, let's make
it
100 - easier to figure...
;)
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