Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 06:15:56 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@lakewood.com> To: nik@iii.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2000 Compliance / dates / time libs Message-ID: <199710281115.GAA01297@i4got.lakewood.com> In-Reply-To: <19971028093034.62730@iii.co.uk> from "nik@iii.co.uk" at "Oct 28, 97 09:30:34 am"
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> 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 > Yup... that's the rather well known SPR on the date. It's really well know and gets reposted to comp.sys.dec or comp.os.vms regularly. Not quite as often as "see figure one," though. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 732-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.
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