Re: HELP! YEAR 2000 BUG: How will it affect you?

}From: Dave Wotton <Dave.Wotton@it.camcnty.gov.uk> }Date: 14 Oct 1996 17:19:16 GMT }X-Informix-List-Id: <news.29245> } }tom.kustner@emjay.com (Tom Kustner) wrote: }>The year 2000 *is* a leap year. }> }>If you still have doubts, go to }>http://www.year2000.com/y2karchive.html and check the FAQ. } }This is just the last of a long line of "oh-yes-it-is, oh-no-it-isn't" }sort of argument. I regret to say it is most unlikely to be the last; it is merely the latest. }It's irrelevant. } }Regardless of whether Y2000 is or isn't a leap year, there is so much }confusion that at least 50% of the manufacturers are likely to have got }it wrong. So you will have to test your systems. I doubt if the number of manufacturers with it wrong is anything like that large. I do remember a software company who forgot that 1900 wasn't a leap year, so their date values were off-by-one compared with Informix's for all dates after 28th February 1900, but that's another matter... }Given the vast amount of cross-posting, maybe a comp.misc.y2000 newsgroup }might be a good idea! There is currently a CFV (call for votes) on comp.software.year-2000 which you could locate and vote for. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>