Why are still not at 64 bits

Jeffry Smith jsmith at alum.mit.edu
Thu Feb 15 13:44:18 EST 2007


On 2/15/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
>
> **Yes, I did take into account leap years, and unlike Microsoft, I know
> that every four hundred years we skip one.
>

You might only skip one every four hundred years, but the Internet
(Gregorian Calendar) skips 3 - it only adds one if the century is
divisible by 400.

(ref RFC 3339, page 2 - definition of leap year,
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt)

jeff


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