The 2001 Leap
Year RTC
This rumor spread because of a number of instances of
testing programs declaring that 2001 was shown by some PC's to be a leap year. In fact
when we ran independent tests on those PC's there was no problem. This strongly indicates
that there was an error in the other testing programs, not the PC's.
However, in view of the fact that there may be a problem,
we must test for it. Some companies are now taking the view that these are spurious tests
and therefore unecessary. We take the view that it is safer to NOT make such assumptions,
and carry out the test anyway.
