[LEAPSECS] An example

[Warner Losh]

  On 11/03/2010 01:03, Ian Batten wrote:

> On 3 Nov 2010, at 02:57, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>

>> Leap days are predictable with a horizon of hundreds of years, nobody

>> has any reason to be suprised when they happen.

> I seem to recall that there's some debate as to the leap-year status of 4000CE (source: Mark Crispin's c-imap client, I think).   If that's true, then leap days are predictable for the next 1989 years.  Long enough for even Windows XP to wither away.

The year 4000 will be a leap year if the current rules are followed 
(mark crispin's c-imap client not with standing).  There was a proposal 
to make it not be a leap year so that the average year would go from 
being one day in 4000 off to 1 day in 31000, but that's only been a 
proposal...

Warner