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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: Computer bugs and the year 2000
Message-ID: <338@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 02:14:56 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.338
Posted: Mon Jan 28 02:14:56 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Jan-85 05:25:43 EST
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: Jocular comment on erroneous posting re leap year

> I have heard that some software take into the account that the year 2000
> is a leap year when indeed it is NOT a leap year.  The computers can
> roll over to that year, but will be off by one day after February 28th...

As somebody else pointed out, 2000 IS a leap year -- it's 2100 that isn't.
Notice that the quoted article was posted from a DEC site.  Does this mean
that users of DEC operating systems can expect their machines to try to
skip the date February 29, 2000? :-)

Mark Brader