From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 17 10:19:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03789 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:19:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (cagw2.att.com [192.128.52.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA03780 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: from caig2.att.att.com by cagw2.att.com (AT&T/IPNS/UPAS-1.0) for freebsd.org!hackers sender dcn.att.com!sbabkin (dcn.att.com!sbabkin); Mon Aug 17 13:14 EDT 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com ([135.44.192.112]) by caig2.att.att.com (AT&T/IPNS/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id NAA04442 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:17:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:17:33 -0400 Message-ID: To: kaleb@ics.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: WRT y2k compliance, in 2000, the day after Feb 28 is NOT Feb 29. Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:17:32 -0400 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----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