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From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time, Leap Years, ctime, and date
Message-ID: <1918@edison.GE.COM>
Date: 16 Apr 89 15:42:43 GMT
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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.
 
Fixed by POSIX as I recall.  (POSIX == IEEE 1003.1 standard in this case).