Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 18:59:52 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WRT y2k compliance, in 2000, the day after Feb 28 is NOT Feb 29. Message-ID: <35D86188.7D5E2E17@pipeline.ch> References: <35D84C94.635DDD5E@ics.com>
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Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > > All this talk about y2k stuff, consider the following: -snip- > and they all got it wrong. (It could be that one or more of them are > fixed in some patch I don't have installed. <shrug>) I didn't try on > FreeBSD because that's at home, but I'd be willing to wager serious > money that it gets it wrong too. OK, I bet against. How much? > And I didn't check, but if they all think 2000 has a 29 Feb., then I'd > wager they think that there's 366 days in the year too, and that all the > day-of-the-week are off by a day for every day after Feb 28. > /usr/bin/cal is broken too on the two systems I checked. First give me the money, then I tell you why ;-) -- Andre Oppermann CEO / Geschaeftsfuehrer Internet Business Solutions Ltd. (AG) Hardstrasse 235, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland Fon +41 1 277 75 75 / Fax +41 1 277 75 77 http://www.pipeline.ch ibs@pipeline.ch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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