Re: Date and time on Cindu: yearly update

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:54 AM, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> I had been assuming that the pre-Spring equinox leap day came between the
> last day of the old year (day numbered 28 [actually 29], month 16 year N)
> and New Year's Day 1/1/N+1-- so in a sense that day ("waiting day") doesn't
> belong to either year.
Right.

> I think we have to say that it sort-of replaces New
> Years Day, but isn't of course called that or "the first", but it does
> increase year N+1 by one day.
Ok, that was my question.

> So I say 700 was a 465-day year, not 699.
I assumed that much, but that doesn't answer the question, since if
the rules say that 700 is a 465-day leap year, you could still go
either way as far as the position of the leap day.  If the leap day
goes with the preceding year, then clearly the leap day for 700 would
fall between 700 and 701.  If the leap day goes with the following
year, then it falls between 699 and 700.  Either way it's part of year
700. :)

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>