Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:04:14 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Florin Nicolescu <fnicoles@pcnet.pcnet.ro> Cc: FreeBSD-hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Y2K bug Message-ID: <36E8E69E.6824D76F@newsguy.com> References: <199903120731.JAA11891@nick.ro>
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Florin Nicolescu wrote: > > 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). I think it was 1900 which did not have Feb 29. Meaning we are safe until 2300. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "My theory is that his ignorance clouded his poor judgment." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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