Friday 29 February 2008

Leap Year Maths

Today is Leap Day, the 29th of February. Reading this article on The Register earlier and in particular the comments, it looks like the logic behind calculating whether a year is a Leap Year is still fuzzy for some. This is an essential calculation to get right in any software that deals with dates (that is, most of them), so here are all the gory details.

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