Was 2000 a Leap Year?
The rule governing Leap Years usually hold that years ending in 00 are not Leap Years. For instance, the years 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not Leap Years. However, every four hundred years a day has to be added to make our calendar correct. The last Leap Year ending in 00 was 1600. The year 2000 will be the next Leap Year ending in 00. Here ‘s the actual rule according to the U.S. government and the Greenwich Observatory in London: A year is leap if and only if it is divisible by 4, unless it is divisible by 100 in which case it should be divisible by 400, which is the case of the year 2000.
