From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 12 2:25:52 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 1F58914CA5 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 02:25:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id TAA01802; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:25:26 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36E8E69E.6824D76F@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:04:14 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florin Nicolescu Cc: FreeBSD-hackers Subject: Re: Y2K bug References: <199903120731.JAA11891@nick.ro> 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 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." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message