- Jan 24, 2011
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A hot meme flying around Facebook at the moment is - shock! horror! - that the site will be closed for maintenance from 29-31 February. Anyone trying to login on those dates will be disappointed
Those people will probably also be disappointed in their calendar, since there is no 29 February in 2011. That date happens only every fourth year, when there is a Leap Year. All Leap Years are exactly divisible by four. So 2011 is not a Leap Year. That's the law. Clearly, there is also no 30 February and no 31 February - not this year, not next year, not ever.
This sort of joke is reminiscent of the great "First of April internet spring cleaning" meme of the late 1990s. Back then, April Fool's rumours would circulate that the internet would undergo its annual one-day shut-down on 01 April so that "dead email, inactive ftp and www sites, and empty USENET groups" could be removed to speed up the internet for everyone.
More detalis - link
Those people will probably also be disappointed in their calendar, since there is no 29 February in 2011. That date happens only every fourth year, when there is a Leap Year. All Leap Years are exactly divisible by four. So 2011 is not a Leap Year. That's the law. Clearly, there is also no 30 February and no 31 February - not this year, not next year, not ever.
This sort of joke is reminiscent of the great "First of April internet spring cleaning" meme of the late 1990s. Back then, April Fool's rumours would circulate that the internet would undergo its annual one-day shut-down on 01 April so that "dead email, inactive ftp and www sites, and empty USENET groups" could be removed to speed up the internet for everyone.
More detalis - link
