Re: FORTRAN Greetings

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From: r... Richard Kirby
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 08:26

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In article <qtlnvv@unify.uucp> dgh@unify.UUCP (David Harrington) writes:
>
>I always thought that you could really make a bundle, starting in about 1990,
>with a company that did nothing but fixed all date routines, so the world
>wouldn't end on Jan 1, 2000.
>
>Unfortunately, I think date routines got smarter over the years :-(  :-).
>
>
>-- 
>David Harrington		                       internet: dgh@unify.UUCP

But do they know that it is a leap year in 2000? (Normally the start of a
century is not a leap year, but every 400 years it is.)

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From: r...@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Kirby)
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Subject: Re: FORTRAN Greetings
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Date: 15 Dec 89 08:26:51 GMT
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