Klarinet Archive - Posting 000123.txt from 2000/01

From: Christian Budde <budde@-----.de>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: [[kl] Re: Y2K]
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 16:57:54 -0500

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Kevin Fay (LCA) wrote:
> Hey, folks -- we're not out of the woods yet. I bet a lot of little banks
> won't be charging interest on February 29, 2000. Apparently there's an
> every-400 year exception to the rule that centuries aren't leap years; many
> older loans won't have this factored in.

I am wondering, which lousy programmer would care about the exception to
drop a leap year every 100 years and not care about the 400-years rule?
This does not make sense, keeping in mind that computers were invented
only in the second half of this, sorry last, century. The simple rule for
a leap year every four years would last till 2100.

Christian

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