Hi!
It's simple, there won't be any Feb 30. All the rules are about Feb 29
only. Every 4 years yes. Every 100 no. Every 400 yes. And there are
more, but those aren't important to us ... it's all approximation of the
year's length.
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 11:40:05AM -0200, Daniel Lafraia wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> 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)
>
> Also check out:
> http://www.isoft.itil.com/bluncal_home.htm
>
> [lafraia@cpu lafraia]$ cal 2 2000
> February 2000
> Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
> 1 2 3 4 5
> 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
> 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
> 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
> 27 28 29
>
> C:\WINDOWS>date
> Current date is Wed 01-12-2000
> Enter new date (mm-dd-yy): 02-30-2000
>
> Invalid date
> Enter new date (mm-dd-yy): 02-30-00
>
> Invalid date
> Enter new date (mm-dd-yy):
>
> Does anybody know a workaround for this?
>
> See ya,
> Daniel Lafraia
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