Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:17:32 -0400 From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com To: kaleb@ics.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: WRT y2k compliance, in 2000, the day after Feb 28 is NOT Feb 29. Message-ID: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8BA8@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Kaleb S. KEITHLEY [SMTP:kaleb@ics.com] > > All this talk about y2k stuff, consider the following: > [program skipped] > 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. > Year 2000 really has the day of February 29th. And it's an important date in Y2K testing :-) The rule behind it is: leap= ( (year%4==0) && ( !(year%100==0) || (year%400==0) ) ) -Sergey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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