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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:04:14 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Florin Nicolescu <fnicoles@pcnet.pcnet.ro>
Cc:        FreeBSD-hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Y2K bug
Message-ID:  <36E8E69E.6824D76F@newsguy.com>
References:  <199903120731.JAA11891@nick.ro>

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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. 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).

I think it was 1900 which did not have Feb 29. Meaning we are safe
until 2300. :-)

--
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

	"My theory is that his ignorance clouded his poor judgment."



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