From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 17 10:01:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00926 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:01:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.pipeline.ch (freefall.pipeline.ch [195.134.128.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00895 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:01:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre@pipeline.ch) Received: from pipeline.ch ([195.134.128.41]) by freefall.pipeline.ch (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with ESMTP id AAA324; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 18:59:46 +0200 Message-ID: <35D86188.7D5E2E17@pipeline.ch> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 18:59:52 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WRT y2k compliance, in 2000, the day after Feb 28 is NOT Feb 29. References: <35D84C94.635DDD5E@ics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. ) 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