Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:47:07 +0000 | From | robbie@scot-mur ... | Subject | Re: Y2k compliance |
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I think there is another exeption for years divisible by 400, so 2000 is a leap year. try
cal 2 1900 cal 2 2000
I guess cal could be wrong, but I doubt it.
Regards
Rob
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 09:12:47AM -0600, S. Shore wrote: > In fact, the year 2000 isn't a leap year. A little-known rule of leapyears > (iirc) is that any year divisible by 100 (i think) can't be a leapyear. > > Scott. > > On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 robbie@scot-mur.demon.co.uk wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 01:03:30 +0000 > > From: robbie@scot-mur.demon.co.uk > > To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> > > Subject: Re: Y2k compliance > > > > On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 10:30:44AM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:53:57AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote: > > > > > > > > > Linux ignores the RTC century byte (for good reason). Before I put > > > > > this fix in, when the year wrapped to 00 Linux would read the RTC > > > > > year as 1900. So a reboot (who does that anyway?) would give a > > > > > classic Y2K time warp. > > > > > > > > So how does it know what century it is? > > > > > > If the right part of the year is less then z it's 20xx if it's greater > > > it's 19xx > > So how does it cope with 2000 being a leep year? In the small ammount of > > experimenting I have done, the year goes back to 1980, not 1900. I think > > linux needs some way of dealing with these buggy machines, probably in > > user space. > > > > > > > > > - > > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > -- > > > > Robbie Murray > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > >
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