In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:

>It seems very unlikely that leap day will move from February.  People  
>are fond of February.  Also, a leap day at the end of December would  
>be December 32nd :-)

Which would break incredibly badly thought out filsystem formats
like FAT which encodes the day-of-month in five bits.

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