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Re: Y2K and Linux and RTCs etc.

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Ted Powell (ted@eslvcr.fireplug.net)
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 00:12:19 -0800

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:45:43PM -0800, Andrew Daviel wrote:
> [...]
> However, I guess when setting the system clock the day of week is ignored,
> but perhaps it will get the leap year wrong for 2000.

Only if it is half-smart, and knows about the 100-year rule but not the
400-year rule.

2000 _is_ a leap year, because 2000 is evenly divisible by 400. 

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
                           --Philip K. Dick

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