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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Y2K Issues
Date: 1998/10/26
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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.

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