From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 28 03:16:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA15503 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 03:16:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (root@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA15486 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 03:16:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pechter@lakewood.com) Received: from i4got.lakewood.com (ppp8.monmouth.com [205.164.220.40]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA28151; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 06:11:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by i4got.lakewood.com id GAA01297 (8.8.5/IDA-1.6); Tue, 28 Oct 1997 06:15:56 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Pechter Message-ID: <199710281115.GAA01297@i4got.lakewood.com> Subject: Re: 2000 Compliance / dates / time libs In-Reply-To: <19971028093034.62730@iii.co.uk> from "nik@iii.co.uk" at "Oct 28, 97 09:30:34 am" To: nik@iii.co.uk Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 06:15:56 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-to: pechter@lakewood.com X-Phone-Number: 908-389-3592 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > 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.