Originally posted by John Lambert:
Under the Gregorian calendar only years that are 100 years divisible by 400 are leap years. Thus 2000 was a leap year, but 1800 and 1900 were not. In the English colonies in North America 1700 was a leap year because they were still using the Julian Calendar, but in New Mexico it was not a leap year because they were using the Gregorian Calendar, being good Catholics and all.
Oh, dear, wouldn't that mean that the poor people of New Mexico are off by one day from the rest of us? How sad.
