Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:32:42 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Florin Nicolescu <fnicoles@pcnet.pcnet.ro> Cc: FreeBSD-hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Y2K bug Message-ID: <19990312163242.A57183@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199903120731.JAA11891@nick.ro> 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. No. Once every _100_ years it is not added, _except_ every 400th years (1600, 2000, etc), when it _is_ added. This is my understanding anyway, I may be wrong. > 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. It does. 2100 won't, however, if my understanding is correct. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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