Leap Year Checker.

Henry Spencer henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Sun Sep 30 10:17:56 AEST 1990


In article <654522456 at grad11.cs.duke.edu> drh at duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Richard Hipp) writes:
>Russia waited until the 20th century before "going Gregorian".
>
>You can probably guess that the non-uniformity of calendars in Europe in
>prior centuries created some small confusion for international travelers.

It's still a headache when dealing with even relatively recent Russian
history, *not* helped by the Soviets' tendency to quote pre-changeover
dates using the new calendar, as if the change had happened earlier.
For example, you will often find two different dates for the birth of
historical figures like Tsiolkovskii, depending on choice of calendar.
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