Re: February 30th 2000

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 02:54:22PM -0700, 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.
> 

Check your calendars, the year 2000 is a leap year, February has 29 days.  The
rule for determining whether a year is a leap year is as follows:

	if the year is divisible by 4 it IS a leap year,
	if the year is divisible by 100 it is NOT a leap year,
	if the year is divisible by 400 it IS a leap year.

That's it.  There is no Feb 30 in any year so let's put this joke to rest.

Paolo

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