On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, 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
Excuse me? The year 2000 is most certainly a leap year. Grab out a
calendar.... in case you're forgetting the rules are
if ( (year % 4 == 0 && year % 100 != 0) || year % 400 == 0 )
leap_year = true;
And as for the a February 30th I read once that somehow Sweden once lost
sync by a day with the rest of the world and required a february 30th to
catch up. Don't put much stock in it, but in any case there definitely IS
a 29th this year and NO 30th.
I am getting a little tired of this thread and while I am not a kernel
hacker by any stretch of the imagination, this thread really does not
belong anymore
-Gary Simmons
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