Letter: Leap-year bug
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: The suggested solution to the Millennium Bug, deducting 50 from the year (letter, 20 April), will put the computer user out of step with the sequence of leap years. Alignment can be restored by deducting 28 or 56 instead. Another illustration of the problems that can be caused by oversimplified fixes.
Jeff Barnes
Harrow,
Middlesex
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