From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:19:05 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Date madness In-Reply-To: <3DB85765-AFE5-4356-8E26-DDD0A2805116@cheswick.com> References: <20171212180117.BFB5918C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <3DB85765-AFE5-4356-8E26-DDD0A2805116@cheswick.com> Message-ID: <024c01d37752$c30d03b0$49270b10$@ronnatalie.com> Year corrections? Don't recall that but there were a bunch of changes to handle the insertion of leap SECONDS over the years. -----Original Message----- From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of William Cheswick Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 9:10 AM Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Subject: Re: [TUHS] Date madness During my first few years in the Unix room (starting in 1988) there was what seemed like a semiannual flurry of leap year corrections made to research unix. Apparently, there was some aspect that kept misbehaving, with new bugs appearing at the next shift in time. I never bothered to investigate the specifics, but it happened over several years. There are probably some on this list who know more details. I don’t recall this being a problem on Plan 9. ches