Re: Interesting fact about leap years !

Posted by Rauville on February 29, 2004 at 07:21:39 from (209.180.79.169):

In Reply to: Interesting fact about leap years ! posted by Alberta Mike on February 29, 2004 at 05:40:41:

Today (2-29-04) is actually known as a "bissextile" day, and it was the church that figured things out: The Julian calendar, authorized by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C., assumed that the year had 365 1/4 days, with a 366-day leap year added every fourth year.
In A.D. 730, an Anglo-Saxon monk, the Venerable
Bede, calculated that the Julian year was 11 minutes and 14 seconds too long, an error of about one day every 128 years. But nothing was done about it for 800 years. In 1582, the accumulated error was estimated at 10 days, and Pope Gregory XIII decreed that the day following Oct. 4 would be Oct. 15 (what about all those bills that were due on the 10th of the month?).
To make future adjustments for the error of about three days every 400 years, it was decided that years ending in "00" would be common years rather than leap years...except those divisible by 400.

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