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From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Y2K Issues
Date: 1998/10/27
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In article <7125a8$e7u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> In article <710nnc$jop@felix.seas.gwu.edu>,


> 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.


The remarkable thing about this (quite common) leap year bug is that it is
a great example of how a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Someone
who knows nothing about century corrections will get things right, someone
who knows how centuray corrections work will get things right, it is only
someone who knows about century corrections, but does not know how they
work who gets things wrong. I have always assumed that one of the reasons
for the range of years in Ada is precisely that you don't have to worry
about century corrections :-)

Robert Dewar

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