Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 13:49:39 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tell the world about Year 2000 Compliance Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971120134737.3229C-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <199711201453.JAA00792@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
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On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, James Raynard wrote: > > > Although the problem isn't just a case of handling 1st January 2000 > > correctly - there may be programs which (wrongly!) assume 2000 is not > > a leap year. I vaguely remember hearing about some system which got > > past 1st Jan and 29th Feb 2000, only to miss out a day in the middle > > of March (OK, I think that one was a hardware bug). > > Why is it wrong to assume 2000 isn't a leap year? Last time I checked, > years ending in three 0's were not leap years by definition. Centurys are leap years iff they are divisible by 400. 2000 % 400 = 0 therefore Feb 29, 2000 is valid. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include <std_disclaimers.h> for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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