From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Date madness
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:57:49 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712141146420.35694@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171212180117.BFB5918C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Heh, my V6 machine thinks (via 'date') that today is _Monday_, December
> 12th. Oddly enough, 'cal 17 2017' on it produces the right thing. Guess
> the date code is probably missing the '400 year' exception.
I fixed a Y2K bug once, when I found some code that baldly asserted that
2000 was *not* a leap year (and written by my then boss, no less).
Oh, I was also on duty around 0700 on 1/1/2000, just in case; yeah, there
were a couple of minor glitches, such as printing cheques for the year
19100...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-14 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 18:01 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 18:21 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-13 15:07 ` Random832
2017-12-13 17:00 ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-13 17:18 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-13 18:02 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-12-13 15:39 ` Wolfgang Helbig
2017-12-14 0:57 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-12-14 14:09 ` William Cheswick
2017-12-17 16:19 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-17 16:33 ` William Cheswick
2017-12-17 17:54 ` Random832
2017-12-17 22:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-17 22:54 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-16 18:12 ` Wolfgang Helbig
2017-12-12 18:31 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 15:56 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 16:08 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 16:23 ` arnold
2017-12-13 16:31 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 16:50 ` arnold
2017-12-13 17:16 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 18:53 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-12-13 20:46 ` arnold
2017-12-15 16:41 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-15 17:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-16 15:45 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-16 3:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-16 3:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-12-17 1:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-14 3:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-14 3:13 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-13 19:12 Doug McIlroy
2017-12-14 3:07 ` Random832
2017-12-15 3:04 ` Random832
2017-12-13 20:22 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 22:16 Norman Wilson
2017-12-14 0:24 ` Chris Torek
2017-12-17 16:20 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-17 18:53 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-12-17 20:07 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-16 10:50 Doug McIlroy
2017-12-16 16:11 ` Random832
2017-12-16 17:11 ` Ralph Corderoy
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