From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 11 23:38:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uucp1.pcnet.ro (uucp1.pcnet.ro [193.230.188.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E262D14CB6 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:37:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fnicoles@pcnet.pcnet.ro) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by uucp1.pcnet.ro (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id JAA10074 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:33:07 +0200 Received: (from nick@localhost) by nick.ro (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11891 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:31:14 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from nick) From: Florin Nicolescu Message-Id: <199903120731.JAA11891@nick.ro> Subject: Y2K bug To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-hackers) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:31:13 +0200 (EET) X-OS: FreeBSD-2.2.7-RELEASE X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, According to the discontinuities in the earth move around the sun, once a four years there is inserted an extra day (29 of February), but once a 400 years (when the first 2 digits of the year divide by 4) it is not added. This is the case for 2000 (20 mod 4 = 0). When I inserted the date 29 of February 2000 in FreeBSD, it has accepted it OK, meaning that it believes that 2000 has the date 29 of Feb. I don't know about other systems, but I know that a lot of people ignore this rule (I've just looked into my agenda, and it has the same error). Ciao, Nick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Florin-Nicolae Nicolescu | | University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics | | Bucharest,Romania | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Friends don't let friends use Windows. | | Double your hard drive space instantly! Delete Windows! | ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message