Re: the year 2000 -- is the tp750 bios ready for it?

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

Steve said, responding to me:

>The length of the year is almost 365.25 days, so a leap day every fourth
>year is almost right, but it is not exactly 365.25, so higher order
>corrections are needed. The above statement of rules is nowhere near
>complete :-)

RIghto. Remember, there was a leap-second added this year!

That's a completely different issue. The leap-second has to do with the
fact that the length of a day varies a bit. The rules about leap-years
have to do with the number of days it takes for the earth to rotate
around the sun. These are separate issues (obviously related in that
both depend on the length of the day), but two quite separate sets
of connections (i.e. 86,400 leap seconds do not make a leap day)