Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:31:13 +0200 (EET) From: Florin Nicolescu <fnicoles@pcnet.pcnet.ro> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Y2K bug Message-ID: <199903120731.JAA11891@nick.ro>
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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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Florin-Nicolae Nicolescu <fnicoles@pcnet.pcnet.ro> | | University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics | | Bucharest,Romania | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Friends don't let friends use Windows. | | Double your hard drive space instantly! Delete Windows! | ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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