Daylight Savings Time, Leap Years, ctime, and date

rja rja at edison.GE.COM
Mon Apr 17 01:42:43 AEST 1989


 From article <1006 at necis.UUCP>, by adamm at necis.UUCP (Adam Moskowitz):
 >   2) Does anyone know if the new versions are less naive about determining
 >      leap years? It seems the current routines only use the "year % 4 ==0"
 >      rule.
 
Fixed by POSIX as I recall.  (POSIX == IEEE 1003.1 standard in this case).



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