Klarinet Archive - Posting 000162.txt from 2000/01

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: [[kl] Re: Y2K]
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:27:21 -0500

Mr. Budde,

I truly feel like I'm talking to an Historian, a Mathematician and a Programmer.

If you will excuse the French, "Hell, I'm still trying to play in time." Music
takes that!

I haven't even memorized the little poem that tells you how many days are in a
month.

Christian Budde wrote:

> 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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