At 08:44 PM 1/2/99 -1000, you wrote:
>
>Harald Sundt wrote:
>>
>> How does Y2K affect the Linux Platform or Apps?
>>
>> 1.) Scientifically, the Millennium begins January 01,2001, 00:00:01 AM
>
>I don't understand this one. How is it anyone in computer
>science
>can say it begins with anything other than a zero ==> 2000
>is the
>beginning of the new millenium.
There was no year zero - so the *first* year of the first millenium was
year 1. The first year of the second millenium was year 1001; and the third
millenium does not start until 2001.
But we computer types have things screwed up based on the two-digit year,
and thus the Y2K problem. And even some of the code that *looks* like it
will handle Y2K properly is broken - many people do not realize that 2000
is a leap year. They look at the statement that 'any year divisable by 4 is
a leap year, unless it's a century' and don't realize that every fourth
century is also a leap year.
TTFN
TomK
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