From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 28 01:28:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA10090 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 01:28:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [193.117.77.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA10083; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 01:28:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@smtp.strand.iii.co.uk) Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA11104; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:25:12 GMT Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA04855; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:30:36 GMT Message-ID: <19971028093034.62730@iii.co.uk> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:30:34 +0000 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: Stephen Roome Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2000 Compliance / dates / time libs References: <199710271629.IAA00243@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: ; from Stephen Roome on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 04:57:07AM +0000 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 04:57:07AM +0000, Stephen Roome wrote: > But anyway, that was my assumption as well, but I've heard otherwise and > ensuring that FreeBSD gets the leap/non-leap year bit of 2000 correct is > probably quite important. The best reference I've seen for this is http://www.southern.edu/~bnbennet/text/lycomplaint.html which purports to be a DEC internal problem report after one of their users complained that VMS reported 2000 as being a leap year. I have no idea as to it's veracity, but the information itself is accurate. N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- The only use I have for IE4 is to keep the mug from staining the desk