Re: Is Your Computer Leap Year Ready?

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From: lex
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:00

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Vu Pham <vupham@cc.gatech.edu> writes:

> In git.announce MILLS,TONI L. <tm29@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
> : The bottom line is that the Year 2000 is one of those rarer 
> : years ending in "00" that is designated as a leap year.  Do 
> : you think computer programmers took all of this into account 
> : when building system and application calendars?
> 
> If a programmer was ignorant, he'd think every 4 years was a leap year,
> so 2/29/2000 would be no problem anyway.  If a programmer knew about the
> "every 100 years" rule, then he'd probably know about the "every 400
> years" rule also, wouldn't you think?  Any hype about 2/29/2000 is
> probably being caused by Y2K coders who are trying to give themselves an
> extra 2 months to find new jobs.



You might think so, but there used to be *lengthy* threads trying to
decide this on the newsgorups.


Lex

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From: lex@cc.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Is Your Computer Leap Year Ready?
Date: 2000/02/22
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