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Title: Microsoft downplays 2001 glitch
Post by: System on January 23, 2001, 11:28:05 AM

Microsoft Corp. is downplaying a bug in its Windows operating systems family that is set to throw off program timing on April 1, 2001.



The bug, which is caused by a single missing equal sign in Visual C++ code in the runtime library in Windows 95, 98 and NT, causes an error in calculating the beginning of Daylight Saving Time in 2001, throwing it off by an hour. Read the whole article at Computerworld (http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO27060,00.html) and read about it at Microsoft.com (http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/headlines/2001.asp).