you’d have gone 8 years without a vote between 1996 and 2004
On second thought, OP is absolutely correct and we need to invent a time machine to fix this mistake.
philluminati@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
A leap year is every 4 years, but not every 400 years. If you could only vote on Feb 29 you’d have gone 8 years without a vote between 1996 and 2004.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 months ago
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not quite—it’s every four years, excluding years divisible by 100, but not excluding years divisible by 400. So 2000 was a leap year, but it was the first century in 400 years for which that was the case (using the Gregorian calendar).