Re: February 30th 2000

Andreas Dilger (adilger@home.com)
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:54:22 -0700 (MST)

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.

Cheers, Andreas

-- 
Andreas Dilger  \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/               -- Dogbert


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