Re: February 30th 2000

From: Christopher E. Brown (cbrown@denalics.net)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 06:44:53 EST


On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> Daniel writes:
> > This year we're going to have the day February 30th and neither Linux, AIX,
> > Windows NT, 98, 95 know this problem. Feb30th happens each 400 years (Last
> > time we had that was year 1600). There's a webpage (in portuguese) from IDG
> > http://www.uol.com.br/idgnow/corp/corp2000-01-10e.shl (you can translate it
> > at http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate)
>
> This is totally wrong. The year 2000 is not even a leap year (i.e. NO Feb 29
> either), so your source of information is incorrect. It is completely
> unlikely that all of these independently created OSs have gotten this wrong,
> despite what one thinks of some of them.

        Not correct, 2000 *is* a leap year, feb has 29 days this year.

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