[plug] [OT] Is your watch correct?

[Bernd Felsche]

On Friday 05 March 2004 08:47, James Devenish wrote:

> I'm a bit puzzled. I've read various remarks over the last few
> days where people have expected problems with clocks not dealing
> with 29 February 2004. Why was this? I certainly had one
> wristwatch that seemed to skip from 28 Feb to 1 March this year.
> Anyone know where I can look up why there was a widespread problem
> with the date? I assume the rules and exceptions for dates have
> not changed since I bought the watch.

Watches generally don't bother keeping track of the year.

I'm more bothered with not being able to read the date for about 5
minutes of every hour, compared to bothering to reset the day of
month once every 4 years; at most.

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