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From: shapiro@rb-dc1.UUCP (Mike Shapiro)
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Subject: Re: Will Your SW Make it to the year 2000?
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Date: 27 Jun 89 20:59:52 GMT
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Reply-To: shapiro@rb-dc1.SanDiego.gould.UUCP (Michael Shapiro)
Organization: Encore Computer, San Diego (was Gould, soon to be extinct)
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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?
...
>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.
...

As you probably realize by now, 2000 is a leap year with a February,
not January, 29.

However, you are right that much software will not likely make it
safely into or through the last year of the century and the millenium.
One current example is Norton Utilities routine TimeMark (TM), which
reports that December 31, 1999, is a Friday, and January 1, 2000, is a
Sunday.  Every date from then on is one day-of-the-week off.  

(January 1, 2000, will be a Saturday.  We'd better plan for a good,
long weekend because we'll have a busy week coming up.  And of course
we'll have a busy year celebrating the approach of the 21st century a
year later.)

-- 
Michael Shapiro, Encore Computer Corporation (formerly Gould/GSD)
15378 Avenue of Science, San Diego, CA 92128
(619)485-0910    UUCP: shapiro@rb-dc1  
(This location will close, starting July 10.  I will be moving on.)