Re: Y2k compliance

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Sun, 6 Dec 1998 12:55:38 +0100 (CET)

On 5 Dec 1998, Harald Milz wrote:
> Myreen Johan <Johan.Myreen@setec.fi> wrote:
> > Do do you really expect to find programs out there
> > written by programmers informed enough to take
> > into account that years divisible by 100 are not
> > leap years, but *at* *the* *same* *time* don't
> > know that years divisible by 400 are leap years
> > after all?
>
> There is a recent analyst's report I think by Gartner or IDC which
> exactly found out this. Many programmers didn't take this into account.

You mean they _did_ take the years 1900, 2100, etc into
account but didn't prepare their code for 2000 :)))

let's kill this thread,

Rik -- the flu hits, the flu hits, the flu hits -- MORE
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