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Article #378Re: Computer bugs in the year 2000
From: Ron Natalie <ron>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1985 02:05
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1985 02:05
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What is really amusing about all of this is that if people didn't insist on putting specific checks in their code for the last year of each century not being a leap year, everything would have been OK. It is doubtful that most simple utilities care about dates before 1901 or after 2099. -Ron
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