Traduisez - Übersetzen - Traduzca - Traduza - Tradurre - Translate

VanLUG Email Archive

VanLUG Mailing List
Re: Y2K and Linux and RTCs etc.

New Message Reply About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

Chris Hunter (chunter@interchange.ubc.ca)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:25:30 -0800


>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.

The formula for the Julian calendar has every fourth year a leap year. The
Gregorian calendar has every year exactly divisible by four as leap year
but century years which are divisible by 400 are not leap years.

Linux Newbie

Chris Hunter
Vancouver, BC
chunter@interchg.ubc.ca


New Message Reply About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Sun 17 Jan 1999 - 02:28:37 PST