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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Florin Nicolescu <fnicoles@pcnet.pcnet.ro>
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Subject: Re: Y2K bug
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no


if ((Year % 4) == 0) {
  if ((Year % 100) == 0) {
    if (( Year % 400) == 0) {
      Feb = 29;
    } else {
      Feb = 28;
    }
  } else {
    Feb = 29;
  }
} else {
   Feb = 28;
}



On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Florin Nicolescu wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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. This is the case for 2000 (20 mod 4 = 0). 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. I don't know about other
> systems, but I know that a lot of people ignore this rule (I've just
> looked into my agenda, and it has the same error). 
> 
> Ciao,
> Nick
>  
> -- 
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> |       Florin-Nicolae Nicolescu <fnicoles@pcnet.pcnet.ro>       |
> |        University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics         |
> |                       Bucharest,Romania                        |
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