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From: jja@wsl.ie (John Allen on wsl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Leap year function
Message-ID: <778@wsl.ie>
Date: 24 May 91 12:02:59 GMT
References: <15921@ms.maus.de> <4165@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: jja@wsl.ie (John Allen on wsl)
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In article <4165@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> acm@Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae) writes:
>It's funny, but in close to fifteen years of programming I have yet to discover
>a need to handle dates before 1901 or after 2099.  Of course I have only

How about a hospital records system, you know some people that were born
before 1901 are still alive today. As I keep saying there is no reason
to do anything incorrectly when it's just as easy to do it right.


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