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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Y2K Issues
Date: 1998/10/26
Date: 1998-10-26T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7125a8$e7u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 710nnc$jop@felix.seas.gwu.edu

In article <710nnc$jop@felix.seas.gwu.edu>,
  mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) wrote:

> As it so happens, I just saw this juicy bit of news:
>
> According to "PC Week", issue of 10/19/98, Microsoft's
> SQL Server 6.5's task manager refuses to recognize Feb.
> 29, 2000 as a valid date. Apparently Microsoft's programmers
> never learned the real rules for leap years - a year divisible
> by 400 _is_ one. Microsoft has acknowledged the bug and will
> fix it in a "service pack" (Microsoft jargon for a patch).
...
> Amazing. Where did these people go to school?

Don't be quite so hard on uSoft. ObjectAda 7.1.1 had this exact same problem.
I understand it has been fixed in the current release, though.

--
T.E.D.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-10-26  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-10-19  0:00 Y2K Issues John J Cupak Jr
1998-10-19  0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-19  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-19  0:00   ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-20  0:00     ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-19  0:00 ` dewar
     [not found] ` <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com>
1998-10-20  0:00   ` dennison
1998-10-23  0:00     ` Michael F Brenner
1998-10-20  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-22  0:00     ` Mark Bennison
1998-10-22  0:00       ` dennison
1998-10-23  0:00         ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-25  0:00   ` Michael Feldman
1998-10-26  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-26  0:00       ` Joel Seidman
1998-10-26  0:00         ` Y2K Issues - Warning Off-Topic Al Christians
1998-10-27  0:00       ` Y2K Issues dewarr
1998-10-26  0:00     ` dennison [this message]
1998-10-27  0:00       ` dewarr
1998-10-27  0:00         ` John Herro
1998-10-27  0:00         ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-27  0:00           ` Y2K Issues (well, not really...) Dave Wood
1998-10-28  0:00           ` Y2K Issues dennison
1998-10-28  0:00             ` Dave Wood
1998-10-27  0:00     ` dewarr
1998-10-29  0:00       ` system
1998-10-29  0:00         ` Al Christians
1998-11-02  0:00         ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-04  0:00           ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-05  0:00             ` dewarr
1998-11-06  0:00               ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-07  0:00                 ` dewarr
1998-11-06  0:00                   ` Al Christians
1998-11-08  0:00                     ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-08  0:00                       ` dewarr
1998-11-06  0:00               ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-27  0:00 ` Gautier de Montmollin
1998-10-28  0:00   ` adam
1998-10-29  0:00     ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-28  0:00   ` Arthur Evans Jr
1998-10-28  0:00   ` adam
1998-10-28  0:00     ` Al Christians
1998-10-29  0:00     ` Samuel Mize
1998-11-04  0:00     ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-28  0:00   ` dewar
1998-10-28  0:00     ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-28  0:00       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-28  0:00         ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-29  0:00           ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-29  0:00             ` Mark A Biggar
1998-10-29  0:00             ` Samuel Mize
1998-10-29  0:00             ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-29  0:00               ` dewar
1998-10-29  0:00                 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-30  0:00                   ` dennison
1998-10-31  0:00                     ` dewarr
1998-11-02  0:00                       ` dennison
1998-10-30  0:00                 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-30  0:00                 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-31  0:00                   ` dewar
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1998-10-23  0:00 Condic, Marin D.
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