Re: doing date arithmetic in CL -- RPG400-L

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So, now we not only have to worry about the year
10k date bug, but the year 4k date bug as well?
Well, I just hope I'm around to have to fix the year
4k bug <vgb>

And what about leap seconds?  Has anyone taken
those into consideration?

Regards,

Jim Langston

"Shaw, David" wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Joel,
>
> <SNIP>

> Oh, that AD 3999 thing?  Some astronomers say that to maintain the 
>approximation
> years divisible by 4,000 should not be leap years, unless they are divisible 
>by
> 20,000.  I've never been able to verify whether that is "official" in the
> Gregorian calendar or not - I'm not even sure who would decide.
>
> Dave Shaw

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