stackyFACTSJust adding an extra day every four years overcompensates, throwing the calendar completely off over centuries. To fix this sloppy timing, years ending in '00' skip the leap day unless they are also divisible by four hundred. The Gregorian calendar is essentially just a series of desperate mathematical patches.
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