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Re:Source code of the file with the Zune bug (starts on line... by dfranke on Thursday January 01, 2009 @11:19PM (#417025)
Last I checked, there haven't been any major overhauls to the Gregorian calendar since C was invented. So why aren't we all using the same, fully-debugged date library yet?

Edit: Actually, I'm cutting it close :-). The last time we changed the calendar was in 1972, when we settled on integer leap seconds -- the same year that C was invented.

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Re:Source code of the file with the Zune bug (starts on line... by projectileboy on Thursday January 01, 2009 @11:45PM (#417055)
Hear, hear. It's strange how often we have to get bitten by date and time bugs. I think people ignore the wisdom of Peter van der Linden in the excellent book "Expert C Programming":

"Anyone who thinks programming dates and times is easy probably hasn't done much of it."

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