Happy New Year (but, of course, the big celebration is in a few days)

[Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)]

This coming Monday, January 6, 2020, is the 28th birthday of World News Now! (The Interactive Program Guide says it started on Jan. 5, but we know how unreliable *that* is ;-)).

The 28th is a special birthday because it (*usually) means that a full leap-year cycle has happened. So we know that WNN started on a MONDAY back in 1992! It's kind of the
modern equivalent of the cycle in the Aztec calendar....

-Doug Elrod (dr...@cornell.edu)
(*the exceptions would be when the intervening years contained a year divisible by 100, but NOT 400!)

[danny burstein]

> The 28th is a special birthday because it (*usually) means that a full leap-year cycle has happened. So we know that WNN started on a MONDAY back in 1992! It's kind of the
> modern equivalent of the cycle in the Aztec calendar....
>
> -Doug Elrod (dr...@cornell.edu)
> (*the exceptions would be when the intervening years contained a year divisible by 100, but NOT 400!)

So you mean that Feb 29th, 2000, won't be repeated
for another 380 years (as adjusted)?

[Steve VanDevender]

In the Gregorian calendar, there is a February 29, xx00 only every 400
years.

[danny burstein]

Ok, judges, I need a ruling: can I keep him or
do I have to throw him back in the lake?