From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 17 09:20:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22431 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:20:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [195.89.149.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22425 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:20:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09050; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 17:19:41 +0100 (BST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) id RAA14141; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 17:19:06 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19980817171904.A14129@iii.co.uk> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 17:19:04 +0100 To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WRT y2k compliance, in 2000, the day after Feb 28 is NOT Feb 29. References: <35D84C94.635DDD5E@ics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <35D84C94.635DDD5E@ics.com>; from Kaleb S. KEITHLEY on Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 03:30:28PM +0000 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton becomes Just Another Perl Contractor in 26 days. ]==+-- "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "Duh, yeah Brain. But how are we going to get all those computers to crash at the same time?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message