#Insider clock
03-Jan-89 21:53:42
Sb: #28540-#Insider clock
Fm: Richard Rae/SYSOP 76703,4253
To: Fred Schuchman 70735,677
<Chuckle> There ARE advantages to being paranoid, one of which is you tend
to run date utilities out to about the year 2500 to be sure all the leap years
and such line up. I'm _pretty_ sure my REMIND utility doesn't have a date bug
for that very reason. Seems A LOT of people have had problems starting with
January 1, 1989; apparently quite a few programmers didn't know how to deal
with leap years… like 1988 (I didn't either, but I beat on it until it
submitted).
Funny. If YOU wrote a calendar or date program, wouldn't you at least run it
forward and backward a few years to make sure it worked? (Dean, no reflection
on you guys… a huge percentage of programs apparently have this problem.
Boy, wait for the fireworks on January 1, 2000…)
Rick