"Daniel Lafraia" <lafraia@iron.com.br> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> This year we're going to have the day February 30th and neither Linux, AIX,
This is nonsense!
> 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)
The page says:
"O último desses foi em 1600, portanto, este ano, fevereiro terá 29 dias."
But even in Portuguese 29 is not translated to 30.
>
> Also check out:
> http://www.isoft.itil.com/bluncal_home.htm
The calender described on this page might be used by some strange people, but
it is not used by most people. In the calender that is in use all around the
world the described problem is _not_ solved by a 'February 30th' but by leap
seconds, which occur sometimes.
>
> [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?
Information that is found somewhere should be _read_ and not interpreted in a
strange way.
Robert
-- "The system required Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux"Robert Schiele mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de Tel./Fax: +49-621-10059 http://webrum.uni-mannheim.de/math/rschiele/
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