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From: clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Will Your SW Make it to the year 2000?
Summary: Are you sure?
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Date: 25 Jun 89 23:58:42 GMT
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In article <4342@druhi.ATT.COM> terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (TerrellE) writes:
>Will your software make it into the 21st century?  Does it cope with the
>Gregorian calendar reform of the 16th century?
>
>I was amused to find that allegedly state of the art scheduling software, 
>TimeLine, is broken for the year 2000.  So is MS DOS.
>
>The Gregorian calendar reform makes every year evenly divisible by 4 a
>leap year EXCEPT for century years.  Consequently there is no January 29,
>2000.

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Are you SURE about that?  My birthday is January 29!


>Terrell	(att!druhi!terrell)  

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