Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 17:19:04 +0100 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WRT y2k compliance, in 2000, the day after Feb 28 is NOT Feb 29. Message-ID: <19980817171904.A14129@iii.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <35D84C94.635DDD5E@ics.com>; from Kaleb S. KEITHLEY on Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 03:30:28PM %2B0000 References: <35D84C94.635DDD5E@ics.com>
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On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 03:30:28PM +0000, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> And I didn't check, but if they all think 2000 has a 29 Feb., then I'd
> wager they think that there's 366 days in the year too, and that all the
> day-of-the-week are off by a day for every day after Feb 28.
> /usr/bin/cal is broken too on the two systems I checked.
[ Please, this has to be a troll ]
The year 2000 *is* a leap year.
A year is a leap year if
1. It's evenly divisible by 4, unless it's evenly divisible by 100
or
2. It's evenly divisible by 400.
1900 wasn't a leap year. 2000 will be.
Please see (amongst others) section 4 of
<URL:ftp://www.year2000.com/pub/year2000/y2kfaq.txt>;
N
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