Regarding: Michael Feldman wrote: > Hi - > > Here is a juicy bit of news: > > According to "PC Week", issue of 10/19/98, Microsoft's > SQL Server database program Enterprise Manager refuses > to recognize Feb. 29, 2000 as a valid date. Apparently > Microsoft's programmers never learned the real rules for > leap years - a year divisible by 400 _is_ one. Well, I guess we will have to petition congress to make it so. This will require a multi-trillion dollar system of jet engines to be placed around the equator to reduce the rotation speed of the earth, hence makeing the leap day unnecesary. It is probably easier to do that than to correct an error in a Microsoft product (oops not an error, a feature). Jack -- John (Jack) Beidler, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science Computing Sciences Department, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 18510 Mailto:[log in to unmask] Phone: (717) 941-7774 Fax: (717) 941-4250 http://www.cs.UofS.edu/~beidler