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| | | (...) Spiffy! Are you going to make the patches publicly available somewhere? Maybe there's a CNews newsgroup? Jasper (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) The patches are pretty simple, just line replacements, and the second one (the ltod() one) is a semi-bogus hack that could blow up other parts of the nntpd if anyone ever adds additional calls to ltod() that assumed a 6-character output string (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Leapyears (was Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help...)) —Steven Vore
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| | | | | In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: ... (...) Way back in 1983, someone reported a "problem" with our operating system not figuring leap years correctly, and was given this explanation (and I was worried about posting this until I found it (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Leap-seconds (was: Re: Leapyears (was Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help...))) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) LOL! --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Leap-seconds (was: Re: Leapyears (was Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help...))) —Steven Vore
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| | | | | | | Thanks for the redirect... I realized it should go in .geek but unfortionately that realization came post-posting. -S (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Leap-seconds (was: Re: Leapyears (was Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help...))) —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | (...) Come now, atomic clocks aren't that expensive. Probably you can get one for $10k or less. Surplus should be way cheaper. Jasper (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Leap-seconds (was: Re: Leapyears (was Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help...))) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) Nobody said they were or weren't! DEC was just saying that they chose not to be a supplier. Whoever it was at DEC that wrote that response is a brilliant master of the art of educating and amusing at the same time. At least that's my opinion. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Leap-seconds (was: Re: Leapyears (was Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help...))) —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | | | (...) Absolutely. I've seen it (or possibly a link) posted in the Sacry Devil Monastery and/or the Other Place fairly recently. The denizens all had a good laugh. (...) xntpd. Jasper (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Leap-seconds (was: Re: Leapyears (was Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help...))) —Steven Vore
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| | | | | | (...) at least not back in '83 :-) nah, actually never did that I know of at any point afterwards either. oh well, would have been a cool feature. -S (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | (...) <URL:(URL) "an extra calendar day is added every four years, as was first done in 46 BC, with the establishment of the Julian calendar. Over many centuries, the difference between the approximate value 0.25 day and the more accurate 0.242 day (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) OK, just found this via Deja.com -- a guy named Dan Glover did some relatively extensive work on this about 3-4 weeks ago: (URL) think his solutions are a bit more robust than what I did[1], and I'll probably install his patch in place of my (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!) —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | (...) Dan Glover - the name seems familiar, but I can't figure out from his Author Profile from where. Maybe from a mailing list or something. Or from one of the Places that aren't on deja. (...) Saw Dan posted twice to there within Deja's archive (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!) —Julie Krenz
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| | | | (...) Danny Glover from Lethal Weapon(s)? :) Julie (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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