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  2. Leap year problem - Wikipedia

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    The leap year problem (also known as the leap year bug or the leap day bug) is a problem for both digital (computer-related) and non-digital documentation and data storage situations which results from errors in the calculation of which years are leap years, or from manipulating dates without regard to the difference between leap years and common years.

  3. Time formatting and storage bugs - Wikipedia

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    The first version of Microsoft Schedule+ as bundled with version 3.0 of the Microsoft Mail email client will refuse to work [needs update] with years greater than 2020 or beyond, due to the fact that the program was designed to operate within a 100-year time window ranging from 1920 to 2019. As a result, the date can only be set as high as 31 ...

  4. Off-by-one error - Wikipedia

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    Off-by-one errors are common in using the C library because it is not consistent with respect to whether one needs to subtract 1 byte – functions like fgets() and strncpy will never write past the length given them (fgets() subtracts 1 itself, and only retrieves (length − 1) bytes), whereas others, like strncat will write past the length given them.

  5. SWAR - Wikipedia

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    The input language was a subset dialect of MasPar's MPL called NEMPL (Not Exactly MPL). During the course of the semester, it became clear to the course teaching assistant, Randall (Randy) Fisher, that there were a number of issues with MMX that would make it difficult to build the back-end of the NEMPL compiler.

  6. Why We Have Leap Years - AOL

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    That resulted in the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 losing their leap day, but 2000 adding one. Every other fourth year in all of these centuries would get it's Feb. 29. And with that the calendrical ...

  7. Epoch (computing) - Wikipedia

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    1601 was the first year of the 400-year Gregorian calendar cycle at the time Windows NT was made. [19] 31 December 1840: MUMPS programming language: 1841 was a non-leap year several years before the birth year of the oldest living US citizen when the language was designed. [21] 17 November 1858

  8. After 25 years, Java still matters and learning it can open ...

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    The collection features 10 courses, positioned to help first time Java users get their hands around what makes Java special as well as understand its role in modern programming. Courses like Java ...

  9. Here’s When and Why We Get a Bonus Day in February 2024 - AOL

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    February, the last month in their calendar, was designated with 28 days, while an extra day was added every four years during a leap year. This adjustment aimed to align the calendar with the ...