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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA420 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:07:22 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!eos!data.nas.nasa.gov!eagle!lercmail!mckim From: mckim@dinah.lerc.nasa.gov (Jim McKim) Subject: Re: [386bsd] New patch00071 is slightly wrong In-Reply-To: micke@dynas.se's message of Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:02:39 GMT Message-ID: <MCKIM.93Feb1093932@dinah.lerc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov Nntp-Posting-Host: dinah.lerc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland References: <bIQKePhq40@astral.msk.su> <1993Jan28.160239.16048@dynas.se> Date: 1 Feb 93 09:39:32 Lines: 17 In article <1993Jan28.160239.16048@dynas.se> micke@dynas.se (Mikael Hybsch) writes: In <bIQKePhq40@astral.msk.su> "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> writes: >I just look into new patch00071 of clock.c and found small bug, >it don't calculate leap year properly, produce error in 2000 year. The rule "year % 4" will work until year 2100, because (2000 % 400) is 0. Of course we still want our grand children to be able o use the correct time when they play with 386bsd. Which they will be able to do until 2106, when the <sec> counter will fill up. -- Jim McKim / Internet: mckim@lerc.nasa.gov tobacco Phone: +1 216 891 2283 / Packet: kb8dcr@kb8dcr.ampr.org road