From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 12 10:15:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C63C715385 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:15:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10LUra-000Et4-00; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:32:42 +0000 (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:32:42 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Florin Nicolescu Cc: FreeBSD-hackers Subject: Re: Y2K bug Message-ID: <19990312163242.A57183@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <199903120731.JAA11891@nick.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199903120731.JAA11891@nick.ro> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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