Re: Hmm...

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:00:59PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:49:29PM EST, jatos.software@gmail.com wrote:
> >   
> >> You know, I would have expected the debian lists 2 be dead at this
> >> time of year.
> >>     
> >
> >   
> >> IMO, anyone posting on the lists at this time is a serious geek and
> >> yes, I know that would include me ;)
> >>     
> >
> > No just so drunk I had to take a break from that boring party..!!
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> What's all this talk of a party and "this time of year"? Is something
> special going on?

Sure. We had a whole thread about a leap second:

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/29/0216214

Also, a perl one-liner for you:

  perl -MPOSIX -e 'print POSIX::strftime("year of %F: is it %Y or %G?\n", 0, 0, 0, 31, 11, 108)'

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