Daylight Savings Time, Leap Years, ctime, and date

Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl abcscnge at csuna.csun.edu
Sun Apr 30 06:13:46 AEST 1989


In article <1918 at edison.GE.COM> rja at edison.GE.COM (rja) writes:
>
> From article <1006 at necis.UUCP>, by adamm at 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).

While I like Unix as much as the NeXT guy (pun intended), does anyone in
this group REALLY believe that it will still be around in the year 2100?
Come on, guys, and get a clue!!!!!!!


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