Daylight Savings Time, Leap Years, ctime, and date

David Goodenough dg at lakart.UUCP
Tue Apr 11 02:38:31 AEST 1989


>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.

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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