From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 14 6: 7:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C329714EF3 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 06:07:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id XAA15838; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 23:07:38 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36EB9871.C162E3C1@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:07:29 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Overfield Cc: Florin Nicolescu , FreeBSD-hackers Subject: Re: Y2K bug References: <199903120731.JAA11891@nick.ro> <3.0.6.32.19990312124719.03ba4b00@bugs.us.dell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Overfield wrote: > > >In message <199903120731.JAA11891@nick.ro> Florin Nicolescu writes: > > > > According to the discontinuities in the earth move around the sun, > > Of course, this is wrong too. A year doesn't come out to a whole > number of days, so adjustments are made whenever the error builds > up sufficiently. Besides, there are no discontinuities in any stellar bodies movement. If you found it to be otherwise, you are probably in for a Nobel prize. :-) Now, if you mean irregularities... :-) -- 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