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Re: the year 2000 -- is the tp750 bios ready for it?



>>I just set the date in DOS/Win (haven't tried in os/2 or linux yet) as
>>"MM-DD-20YY" or the whatnot...
>
>The test (I don't have time to play with it) is to set it to 12/31/1999,
>then see what happens when it changes over to the next date.  It wouldn't
>hurt to test 2/28/2000 -> 3/1/2000 too....
>
>Lee Stewart (a software tester in a former life)

Well it will be 2/28/2000 -> 2/29/2000 because if           
year mod 400 == 0 then leap year
else if 
year mod 100 == 0 then not leap year
else if
year mod 4 == 0 then leap year
else not leap year

Later!

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