danny burstein writes:
 > > 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 (d...@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)?

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

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