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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

A slightly easier way to think of this: leap years happen every 4 years, except that we skip one every 100 years (those that end in 00) unless it's divisible by 400. So we had a leap year in 2000 because it's divisible by 400, but 2100 will not be a leap year.