Happy Leap Day

Today is the day every business computer programmer hates - Leap Day.

There are three parts to the leap year calculation:

If the year is not divisible by 4, it is not a leap year. You are done.
If the year is divisible by 4 and divisible by 100, it is not a leap year unless it is divisible by 400.

Here are some examples:

• 1996 was divisible by 4 but not divisible by 100 so it was a leap year.
• 2000 was divisible by 4 and 100 but it was divisible by 400 so it was a leap year.
• 2023 was not divisible by 4 so it was not a leap year.
• 2024 is divisible by 4 but not 100, so it is a leap year.
• 2100 will be divisible by 4 and 100 and not 400 so it is not a leap year.
• 2200 will be divisible by 4 and 100 but it is also divisible by 400 so it is a leap year.

Got all that? Good. Now go program a computer to tell you if today is February 29^th or March 1^st...

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Castiglione was on a day off so Will Flemming was back in the booth with Merloni.

Flemming was excited about everything. He was excited about his drive to the park, he was excited about the weather, he was excited about seeing Merloni, he was excited about Devers hitting a home run...

He's just an excited guy.

Despite Flemming's excitability, the Red Sox managed to beat the Tigers 5-2.

Whitlock pitched two great innings and one okay inning. He struck out six batters, walked none and gave up three hits. In the third inning, he gave up his only run and it was an earned run.

Tomorrow they take on the Twins and Giolito will be the starter. Once again, I will be listening to WEEI because it looks like NESN would rather run another exciting episode of "NESN Bets!" where the hosts talk about things I have zero knowledge or understanding of...

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Amazingly enough, despite the 30-40 mph wind gusts all night long, we here at the Daily News^™ World Headquarters did not suffer any power outages or tree damage.

The cats, however, spent most of the night trying their best to hide from sound of the wind screaming through the trees.

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I'm going to figure out what to do about dinner and then watch some hockey.

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