Hi,

Barry Lake and Michael Hensley found what appears to be a new kind
of Y2K bug.  ("new" based on my searching the web for other reports.)

Basically, if you define a week as running from Sunday to Saturday,
the year 2000 has 54 weeks in it ... not the 52 or 53 code might expect.

This (54 weeks in a year) can happen only in a leap year, and only
in one leap year out of seven (i.e., in a leap year where January
1 is on a Saturday, which results in December 31 being a Sunday).

The last time this happened was 1972, well before most of our
date software was running!

Barry & Michael found some code in a customer's program that was
bounds checking user-entered "fiscal week" to be in the range
1..53.  In this particular case, 2000-12-31 was valid and would have
been fiscal week 54.

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