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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time, Leap Years, ctime, and date
Message-ID: <489@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 16:38:31 GMT
References: <1006@necis.UUCP>
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Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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From article <1006@necis.UUCP>, by adamm@necis.UUCP (Adam Moskowitz):
>   2) Does anyone know if the new versions are less naive about determining
>      leap years? It seems the current routines only use the "year % 4 ==0"
>      rule.

Do you _REALLY_ think this code will still be running on Feb 28, 2100.
No I didn't think so. For the forseeable future, the naive method works
just fine. :-)
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